id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_4revxqlkmbe4pamtg5ni24qc2u Andrea Rizzi Leonardo Bruni and the Shimmering Facets of Languages in Early Quattrocento Florence 2013 16 .pdf application/pdf 7171 881 73 This article advances a novel interpretation of Leonardo Bruni's understanding of the link between Latin and vernacular languages of early quattrocento Florence and the cultural and political spaces Bruni's recognition of the strengths and weaknesses in both Latin and the Florentine languages represents a radical departure from the perception of vernacular Equally, from the point of view of Bruni, Dante's vernacular mirrored the spoken Florentine of his time, and it is his writing that it subjected to criticism, not his fundamental contribution to the rhetorical power and In the words of Niccoli/Bruni, Dante's vernacular has an elegance of speech that makes it perfect in its own realm, even if In other words, Bruni stresses Dante's fundamental contribution to vernacular oratory and the influence the language shaped by the poet had on public speaking. ./cache/work_4revxqlkmbe4pamtg5ni24qc2u.pdf ./txt/work_4revxqlkmbe4pamtg5ni24qc2u.txt