Le inedite postille di Niccolò Bargiacchi e Anton Maria Salvini alla Terza impressione del Vocabolario della Crusca

The Florentine Abbot Niccolò Bargiacchi (1682-1754), nowadays mainly known as a bibliophile, was a learned person respected for his knowledge of the Tuscan language and literature of the "buon secolo". Even if he did not appear as the author of any printed work, he left extensive proof of his skills in commentaries on his manuscripts, often together with the Abbot Anton Maria Salvini, and in the annotations to the third edition of the Vocabolario della Crusca, which he also drafted with Salvini. Even if Bargiacchi was not an academician, his suggestions for alterations and additions to the Vocabolario were widely accepted in the fourth edition, which was then being prepared. This article, by providing the commented edition of a wide choice of the annotations by Bargiacchi and Salvini, contributes to the knowledge of the development of the fourth edition of the Vocabolario, throwing light on the figure of Bargiacchi and his intellectual activity as a member of the seventeenth century Florentine "Repubblica delle lettere".