Note 858 — Chapter III · LANGUAGE AS THE BASIS OF SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
De Vulgari Eloquio, ed. Corbinelli, Parisiis, 1577. According to Boccaccio, Vita di Dante, p. 77, it was written shortly before his death. He mentions in the Convito the rapid and striking changes which took place during his lifetime in the Italian language.