2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Bembo's Prose della volgar lingua and the establishment ofthe Italian literary language

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22520306
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	European literature (English literature excluded)
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	AMANO Kei 京都大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (90175927)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	イタリア文学 / ベンボ / ルネサンス / 言語問題 / 俗語論
Research Abstract	Prepared the text of Pietro Bembo’s Prose III and its Japanese translation, with every minimal differences between the manuscript Vaticano Latino 3210, the princeps by Tacuino (1525), the 2nd edition by Marcolini (1538) and the last anddefinitive by Torrentino (1549), highlighted by variety font colors, I traced the birth and the development of Bembo’s deliberation to give his“norm” to the Italian literary language, in some cases even against the writing customs of his major authority of 14thcentury tuscan language, ie. Petrarch himself.

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