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Lifetime: 1500 - 1588 Passed: ≈ 436 years ago

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Sperone Speroni

Books by Sperone Speroni

Dialogo delle lingue Cover image

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...