2021
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Clémence Revest, « Langue de la patrie et langue du pouvoir : une question humaniste entre Florence et Rome au début du Quattrocento », HAL-SHS : littérature, ID : 10.1515/9783110702231-021
The place to be given to vernacular literature and in particular to the'three crownsof Florence'constituted for the nascent humanistic movement, in the years 1400–1440, avexata quaestio, which gave rise to ambiguous attitudes (e.g. operations ofLatinisation or attempts to recognise a possibility, albeit exceptional, of literary en-noblement). These points of tension were crystallized in the highly commented de-bate of 1435 about the language spoken by the ancient Romans. The articleproposes to recontextualise these polemics according to a perspective of politicalideology, which developed in a dialectic between two centres of power in fullchange, Rome and Florence: on the one hand, the exaltation of Latin as the onlyand eternal language of Rome and of the curia as a centre of the awakening ofeloquence participated in the affirmation of pontifical authority over the city; onthe other hand, the defence of the seniority of the vernacular and the reintegration of the three crowns into the pantheon of literature made it possible to glorify both an 'Alternative Antiquity' and an extraordinary modernity which were conceived as typically Florentine, and which echoed the development of a regional capital