De institutione grammatica libri tres

This is a reprint of the classic Latin grammar by Manuel Álvares, S.J. I cleaned up the pages and corrected the errata listed in the last page. Manuel Álvares was born on the island of Madeira. In 1546 he entered the Society of Jesus, taught classics with great success, and was rector of the colleges of Coimbra and Évora. He died at Évora. Among the more than three hundred Jesuits who have written text-books on different languages, he takes the foremost place. His Latin grammar was adopted as a standard work by the Ratio Studiorum, or Plan of Studies, of the Jesuits. Perhaps no other grammar has been printed in so many editions; Carlos Sommervogel, in his "Bibliothèque de la compagnie de Jésus," devotes twenty-five columns to a list of about four hundred editions of the whole work, or parts of it, published in Europe, Asia, and America. There exist also numerous translations into various languages.