Regule lingue Florentine

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The Regule lingue Florentine (Rules of the Florentine Language) was a work by Leon Battista Alberti written around 1495. This treatise was significant because it was one of the first historical grammars of the Italian language, advocating for its use as a literary language. Alberti aimed to demonstrate that the Tuscan vernacular was as regular and worthy of literary use as Latin. This work contributed to the rise of vernacular literature in Italy during the Renaissance, a period when Italian began to rival Latin as a literary medium.123

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Leon Battista Alberti
…handbook and grammatical treatise, the Regule lingue Florentine (1495; “Rules of the Florentine Language”), which bespeaks his strong influence on the rise of literary expression in the vernacular. He contributed an important text on cartography and was instrumental in the development of ciphers. A prominent architect (e.g., the Tempio Malatestiano…
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…handbook and grammatical treatise, the Regule lingue Florentine (1495; “Rules of the Florentine Language”), which bespeaks his strong influence on the rise of literary expression in the vernacular. He contributed an important text on cartography and was instrumental in the development of ciphers. A prominent architect (e.g., the Tempio Malatestiano…
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