Il canone linguistico boccacciano, non senza dissenso

Author of prose’s greatest masterpiece of medieval literature in the vernacular, Giovanni Boccaccio was crucial to defining the Italian language canon, especially since Pietro Bembo proposed its coding in the sixteenth century. Not without controversy, however, since shortly after the publication of...

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Main Author: Cecilia Casini
Format: Article
Language:Italian
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2015-06-01
Series:Revista de Italianística
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Online Access:https://www.revistas.usp.br/italianistica/article/view/116154
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Summary:Author of prose’s greatest masterpiece of medieval literature in the vernacular, Giovanni Boccaccio was crucial to defining the Italian language canon, especially since Pietro Bembo proposed its coding in the sixteenth century. Not without controversy, however, since shortly after the publication of Prose Della Volgar Language, Bembo presents the first contrasting theories that support the linguistic model presented by Machiavelli
ISSN:1413-2079
2238-8281