NDLI: The Accademia della Crusca in Italy: past and present

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Author	Tosi, Arturo
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	An informal organisation that is becoming quite influential in the spread of Italian in Italy, as well as abroad, is the Accademia della Crusca which began its activities during the Renaissance, under quite different auspices. Founded in Florence in 1582–1583, this Academy was inspired by the theories of Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), a Venetian who felt that the best models for literary works were those of the old Tuscan writers of the Trecento. In 1590 its members set out to select and define the words and norms in the works of the great Tuscan writers, especially in Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. This project led to the compilation of the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612), the first modern language dictionary. It was produced to provide the models of the literary language: a rationale due to the paradoxical condition of Italian, a language with a great literature but without a nation state. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Accademia exercised an editorial role on the linguistic qualities of literary texts for publication, based on the puristic distinction between those forms and words which could be included, and those considered impure which were to be excluded. The last Presidents have secured for the Accademia the new role of leader of national awareness on issues of corpus and status planning with regard to the contemporary Italian language, both in Italy and abroad. In addition, they have engaged the Accademia for the first time in language-planning activities, sometimes in support of Italian in Italy, sometimes in defence of Italian in Europe.
Starting Page	289
Ending Page	303
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15684555
Journal	Language Policy
Volume Number	10
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15731863
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-11-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Language diversity Lexicography Linguistic purism Neologisms Nationalism Xenophobia Language awareness Multilingualism Lingua franca Language Education Applied Linguistics Political Science Sociolinguistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Linguistics and Language

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