La lingua italiana sotto assedio

Abstract

The Italian language under siege. Moving from the new edition of Antonio Vallisneri’s "Che ogni italiano debba scrivere in lingua purgata italiana" (1722), edited by Dario Generali, and from the current debate about the use of the English language in Italian university courses, this essay advances a historical consideration about Italian linguistic identity and denounces the risks of its depletion.

Keywords

• A. Vallisneri
• Italian language
• Linguistic identity
• Anglophony
• Teaching