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The Florentine dialect or vernacular (dialetto fiorentino or vernacolo fiorentino) is a variety of Tuscan, a Romance language spoken in the Italian city of Florence and its immediate surroundings.
Standard Italian is based on Tuscan, specifically on its Florentine dialect, and it became the language of culture throughout Italy [1] because of the prestige of the works by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Francesco Guicciardini.
[19] [18] In fact, Standard Italian itself can be thought of as either a continuation of, or a dialect heavily based on, the Florentine dialect of Tuscan. The indigenous Romance languages of Italy are therefore classified as separate languages that evolved from Latin just like Standard Italian, rather than "dialects" or variations of the latter.
The popular diffusion of a unified Italian language was the main goal of Alessandro Manzoni, who advocated for a single national language mainly derived from "cultured" Florentine language. [9] Having lived in Paris for many years, Manzoni had noticed that French (defined as the capital's dialect) was a very lively language, spoken by ordinary ...
The novel is commonly described as "the most widely read work in the Italian language". [37] It became a model for subsequent Italian literary fiction, [37] helping to galvanize national linguistic unity around the Florentine dialect. This growth was relative; linguistic diversity continued during the unification of Italy (1848–1871).
Pages in category "Dialects of Italian" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... Florentine dialect; Regional Italian; B. Benevento dialect; C.
The Italian language is based historically on literary Tuscan, specifically the Florentine dialect. It became the language of culture for all the people of Italy, thanks to the prestige of the masterpieces of Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.
The language spoken in the city during the 14th century came to be accepted as the model for what would become the Italian language. Thanks especially to the works of the Tuscans Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, [16] the Florentine dialect, above all the local dialects, was adopted as the basis for a national literary language. [17] [18]