L’ITALIANO, LINGUA MODELLO NEL CELEBRE PARALELISM ÎNTRE LIMBA RUMÂNĂ ŞI ITALIANĂ DI ION HELIADE RĂDULESCU
Italian, a Model Language in Ion Heliade Radulescu’s Famous Paralelism între limba rumana si italiana

Summary/Abstract: Rejected by researchers not only for its Italic exaggerations, but rather because of the new political and linguistic context of the age, Ion Heliade Rădulescu’s famous Paralelism între limba rumână şi italiană (A Parallel Between Romanian and Italian Language) boasts, among other things, of having coined a large number of neologisms, mostly of Italian origin, according to Popescu-Sireteanu (1973: 25-26). The hereby article presents Ion Heliade Rădulescu’s considerations on Italian language, in order to remind that Italian language was a model for some Romanian intellectuals at a time when French language and culture had a strong influence on the Romanian Principalities and Romanian language.

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