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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 868 — Chapter III · LANGUAGE AS THE BASIS OF SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

Such a congress appears to have been held at Bologna at the end of 1531 under the presidency of Bembo. See the letter of Claud. Tolomai, in Firenzuola, Opere, vol. ii. append. p. 231 sqq. But this was not so much a matter of purism, but rather the old quarrel between Lombards and Tuscans.

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