L’INTRODUZIONE DELLA STAMPA E LA STABILIZZAZIONE DEL FIORENTINO TRECENTESCO COME MODELLO DI LINGUA SCRITTA. ALCUNE CONSIDERAZIONI CULTURALI E LINGUISTICHE
THE INTRODUCTION OF THE PRESS AND THE STABILISATION OF 14TH CENTURY FLORENTINE AS A MODEL OF WRITTEN LANGUAGE. SOME CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC CONSIDERATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the role of the printing press in the stabilisation of a unified norm for written Italian in the 15th and 16th centuries. The printing industry first impressed the urgency of such a norm, and then became a “megaphone” for one of the sides in the so called questione della lingua (language problem): a discussion about what form the national Italian language should have. In a situation of linguistic fragmentation on the peninsula, Venetian publishers used the laws of the market, educating their readers in certain rules of the written language, thus contributing to the imposition of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio’s Tuscan language from the 14th century as a model of written Italian. Thus, we observe the importance of the diamesic variable (related to the communication mode or channel) highlighted in general and in the work of the intellectual Pietro Bembo in particular

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