This book provides a systematic analysis of the entire Turkish lexical corpus contained in the work traditionally known as Regola del parlare turcho. Kept in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence, the manuscript was written in 1533 by Filippo Argenti, who served for a number of years as secretary to the Florentine Ambassador in Istanbul. Made up of over 650 papers collected in two volumes, it is essentially an Italian-Turkish glossary comprising more than 4000 entries. The material is here published in its entirety, ordered alphabetically according to the Turkish entries, and accompanied by a linguistic and historical-etymological comment on each entry which stands as a loanterm.
