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A received pedagogical variant derived from it historically, once called la pronuncia fiorentina emendata (literally, 'the amended Florentine pronunciation'), was officially prescribed as the national language of the Kingdom of Italy, when it was established in 1861. It is the most widely spoken of the Tuscan dialects. [1]
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". [36] It became a model for subsequent Italian literary fiction, [36] helping to galvanize national linguistic unity around the Florentine dialect. This growth was relative; linguistic diversity continued during the unification of Italy (1848–1871).
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.
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]
[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.
In Italian phonemic distinction between long and short vowels is rare and limited to a few words and one morphological class, namely the pair composed by the first and third person of the historic past in verbs of the third conjugation—compare sentii (/senˈtiː/, "I felt/heard'), and sentì (/senˈti/, "he felt/heard").
Augusto Novelli. Augusto Novelli (17 January 1867 – 7 November 1927), also known as Novellino, was an Italian Florentine satirical journalist, writer, and dramatist.. Aa a prolific playwright who completed more than fifty dramatic pieces, many of which is in the Tuscan (Florentine) dialect, Novelli is regarded as one of the founding fathers of the modern Florentine vernacular (dialect) theatre.