El "Nuevo diccionario italiano-español / Nuovo dizionario spagnuolo-italiano" de Felipe Linati y Delgado

This chapter contributes to the reconstruction of the Italian-Spanish lexicography in the 19th century with an in-depth study of Felipe Linati’s “Nuovo dizionario spagnuolo-italiano” (1887 first edition). This dictionary has been mentioned before but so far no one has studied it in detail nor made researches about its author and the sources that he could have consulted. The study presents a new contribution on Felipe Linati’s life and lexicographic work, and on the two publishers that published the Spanish and the Italian editions. The detailed philological comparison of the two editions known till now has led to the discovery of a third unknown edition and to the Spanish and Italian sources of the dictionary. The latter do not exactly match those given by the author in the preface and question the date of the first and second edition. Therefore, the study illustrates not only the lexicographical work of the author of “Nuovo dizionario” but also a a chapter in the history of publishing in the late 19th century.