L 'unity of a people, a nation goes through many elements: territorial, ethnic, and (perhaps most) of language. It therefore can not treat such an important event as the political unity of our country without reference to the unifying trait represented by language, and its protagonists.
In the beginning was the Latin and classical, of course, and then the clergyman, who - with the decisive contribution of the Church (pace of the infamous superstition and prejudice and anti-Christian secularism dominant today) - was among the many and great merits to have preserved the culture and art of a nation that already then attacks from the barbarians.
Then came the "vulgar" language of all, that is the people: a unifying strain and many other small local strains - dialects - which now characterize the peculiarities of our great country.
I remember three of these champions, but only as the cornerstones of our language. Also appear later in our overview, the protagonists in their own right. Are St. Francis of Assisi, Dante, and Alessandro Manzoni.
The great saint was a real Italian "before its time", and not coincidentally is the patron saint: the "Canticle of the Creatures" was a poet and man of prayer, as well as the synthesis of nascent language could produce. The
Alighieri brought everything to a higher level, composing a work which is not given to know the same even today.
Manzoni, finally, man of art but also a fervent patriot, including before and better than others what we are trying to explain it here: there is no people without a common parliament. His novel - one of the best ever, even for the story it tells, and think that the British take on the palm of the hand pallosissime some stories of Walter Scott - is somehow the epic of the nation that is finally becoming state, which the writer Milan was then a long time, and rightly so, Senator.
The Italian, already: and think that it mistreated so much! Consider, friends of the toll, how many idiots anglismi use in everyday life. Just take a look under the heading "Defend Italian ", here on our blog (blog, unfortunately: anglismo too) ...
