Giovanni Mario Alessandri was an Italian

Hispanist Hispanism (sometimes referred to as Hispanic studies or Spanish studies) is the study of the literature and culture of the Spanish-speaking world, principally that of Spain and Hispanic America. It may also entail studying Spanish language an ...

and

grammarian Grammarian may refer to: * Alexandrine grammarians, philologists and textual scholars in Hellenistic Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE * Biblical grammarians, scholars who study the Bible and the Hebrew language * Grammarian (Greco-Roman ...

from the 16th century. He spent a time at the Spanish royal court and he wrote the first

Spanish grammar Spanish is a grammatically inflected language, which means that many words are modified ("marked") in small ways, usually at the end, according to their changing functions. Verbs are marked for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number (result ...

for Italians, ''Il Paragone della Lingua Toscana et Castigliana'' (Nápoles: Mattia Cancer, 1560).''Il Paragone della Lingua Toscana et Castigliana''
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phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians ...

. This work was inspirational for

Giovanni Miranda Giovanni Miranda was an Italian Hispanist and grammar In linguistics, grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers. Grammar rules may concern the use of clauses, phrases, and ...

's ''Osservationi de la lingua castigliana''.

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