Timeline
Lifetime:
1500 -
1588
Passed: ≈
437 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Sperone Speroni
Books by Sperone Speroni
Dialogo delle lingue
Philosophy
Non-Fiction
Essays
Education
Culture
Rhetoric
Renaissance Literature
Humanism
Vernacular
Italian language
Volgare
Classical philology
Dialects
Prescriptivism
Literary theory
The Dialogue of Languages (Dialogo delle lingue) is a Renaissance dialogue by the Italian humanist Sperone Speroni, first published in 1542. It is considered a key text in the history of Italian language and literature, and is one of the earliest wor...