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2 JUNE
The Savoy who unified us spoke French or Piedmontese and Italian was also an artificial, literary language for the tragic poet V. Alfieri, like Latin!
Ignorance does not recognize it, but if Latin universalized, it globalized, as did the Greek before from the time of Alexander the Great up to the Byzantines of the Eastern Empire (which only fell into the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1453) ... l ‘Literary Italian is the only true unit from the thirteenth century onwards: difficult, with its history, its genres, even the gory and scandalous ones, which never enter school anthologies, as for Greek and Latin texts, which would to pale anyone today in art or in videos, in literature who wants to be provocative, anti-traditionalist, on the other hand it is fresh water compared to what Greeks, Latin and even Italians wrote in poetic, tragic, prose verses….
In short, how can we call ourselves Italians if not recognizing that only the Italian language makes us such, not religion (“Catholic” means “universal”), not Europeanist politics, (woe to say that we would like to get out of it, only the Great Britain, but for us it seems an offense to the sense of modesty), not membership of NATO or the UN or the WHO!
If you want to be Italian, I tell my Italian students, learn Italian!
If you can, realize how mixed your blood is ...
How much history flows in this boot that many have worn and then thrown away when it was no longer needed.