A question to those who have studied the #history of the #Italian language more than I have:
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A question to those who have studied the #history of the #Italian language more than I have:
At what point in time did a "Standard Italian" develop that was used in most Italian-language books and publications?
I am asking because while I want to delve into Italian-language public domain works at some point, I am still very much a beginner and don't want to deal with regional dialects until I am much firmer in the language.
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A question to those who have studied the #history of the #Italian language more than I have:
At what point in time did a "Standard Italian" develop that was used in most Italian-language books and publications?
I am asking because while I want to delve into Italian-language public domain works at some point, I am still very much a beginner and don't want to deal with regional dialects until I am much firmer in the language.
@juergen_hubert
Not my field of expertise.
At school we were told that Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) was the Italian author who built the foundations of modern Italian (his life and work span the decades that brought to the unification of Italy as a single national State). As a reader and movie viewer I can tell that the Italian you could find in works from the 1930s and 1970s differs a lot.
If you are into tales, you may be interested in "Fiabe italiane" by Italo Calvino, pub. 1956 and
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@juergen_hubert
Not my field of expertise.
At school we were told that Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) was the Italian author who built the foundations of modern Italian (his life and work span the decades that brought to the unification of Italy as a single national State). As a reader and movie viewer I can tell that the Italian you could find in works from the 1930s and 1970s differs a lot.
If you are into tales, you may be interested in "Fiabe italiane" by Italo Calvino, pub. 1956 and
(1/2)@juergen_hubert
available as pdf file online. Calvino's work was a collection of traditional tales from different parts of Italy, different times (e.g. "Lo cunto de li cunti", XVII century) and different dialects/language variants, but transposed into a unified "modern" italian language.
In general, it might be safer not going further back than the XIX century, for starter, although dialects have been widely used also later, especially in popular culture works.
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@juergen_hubert
available as pdf file online. Calvino's work was a collection of traditional tales from different parts of Italy, different times (e.g. "Lo cunto de li cunti", XVII century) and different dialects/language variants, but transposed into a unified "modern" italian language.
In general, it might be safer not going further back than the XIX century, for starter, although dialects have been widely used also later, especially in popular culture works.
(2/2)You are perhaps the seventh person who has recommended "Fiabe Italiane" to me.
And, indeed, it was the very first Italian-language book I bought.
