At the end, the question of what Italian to speak remained. Yet despite this, the Italian language as we know it today is the result of a long process of evolution and debates, which began in the 1600s, over what the correct form of the language should be. The foundations of modern Italianįrom a historical perspective, it is not wrong to claim that the high, or cultured, Tuscan dialect, which the three most important poets of the 1300s (Alighieri, Boccaccio and Petrarch) wrote in can be considered the basis of modern Italian.
The largest push and most significant contributions were made by Sicilian Poets in the 13th century who were then followed by those from Tuscany, the most important being Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio and Francesco Petrarch. These are the so-called Placiti Capuani, which prove that some territories located near the city of Capua, in Campania, belonged to a monastery of Benedictine monks.įrom the start of the 13th century large amounts of literature, and especially poems, began to be published in regional Italian. The first documents written in vernacular (which was the language usually spoken by the general population) date back to 960.
However, for several centuries, and especially during the Middle Ages, Latin was the dominant cultural language, used throughout European Universities and in all the official acts and procedures of the Church. Up until this moment, Latin had spread and had been imposed across the Empire as the ‘madre franca’, or the shared language.Īfter the fall of the Empire, vernacular and local forms of the language had an important role in society and the everyday life of the population. The Italian language has developed through a long and gradual process, which began after the Fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century. Development of the language from its origins
The Italian language stems directly from Latin, just like other Romance languages like Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, French, Romanian and other minority languages (Occitan, Provençal, Galician, Ladin and Friulan).
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