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Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 24:3 (1997) ► pp.267–283

The Italian connection in Juan de Valdés’ Diálogo de la lengua

| Mount Holyoke College
The article reassesses the connection between Juan de Valdés’ (c.1495–1541) Diálogo de la lengua (1535) and the Italian Renaissance by demonstrating that Valdés was thoroughly familiar with the Italian literature on language and the concept of its possible rebirth. It is shown that the Italian humanist Pietro Bembo’s (1470–1547) argument, as laid down in his seminal work Prose della volgar lingua (1525), that great writers contribute significantly to the normalization and enrichment of a language constitutes the frame of Valdés’ work from which flow the author’s concerns about culture and linguistic theory. Valdés’ appropriation of and reaction to the Italian literature on language reflect the views prevalent in the intellectual circles of Europe at the time.
Published online: 1 January 1997
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