Difesa dell' alfabeto degli antichi Toscani pubblicato nel MDCCXXXVII dall' autore del Museo etrusco : disapprovato dall' illustrissimo sig. marchese Scipione Maffei nel tomo V. delle sue Osservazioni letterarie, date in luce in Verona : con tavole e figure
A polemical antiquarian treatise by Antonio Francesco Gori, printed in Florence in 1742 to defend his Etruscan alphabet against Scipione Maffei's criticisms, aimed at scholars of ancient inscriptions. Engraved plates show inscribed stone slabs, cippi, and funerary urns rendered in fine hatching, with Etruscan, Greek, and Latin letterforms, retrograde lettering, scale bars, and turned column ornaments.

















