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Antonio de Nebrija, Prologo al Vocabulario español-latino
The following is a transcription and translation of the Prologue of Antonio de Nebrija’s Vocabulario español-latino that I made because I could not find any full transcripts freely available on the internet. Beyond modernizing the spelling of the Spanish, I have also broken the text into paragraphs for legibility. My translation that follow the transcript attempts to conserve the language of the time period while still being accessible to modern readers. Antonio de Nebrija (1441 – July 5, 1522) was the most prominent humanist of 15th century Spain and is best known for his linguistic projects: outstanding among them a Castilian-Latin dictionary and also the first ever treatise on vernacular…