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Old 03-15-2010, 09:57 AM   #29
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One of the advantages of this project will be the preservation of historic literature written in the regional dialects of Italy. Many of these works have been disappearing, as few authors nowadays would write in a regional language. There was an attempt a few years ago to preserve literature written in my grandmother's native piemontese, but it never got off the ground.
You're wonderfully correct. I wish that more people understood that modern Italian language came about after the "Italian Wars" (1494 to 1559) and the conquest and occupation of Italy by Napoleon. Even in Mussolini's time there were (and to some degree or another still are) many well defined dialects.

Italy and Greek history needs to be preserved. But then too I also think that latin should.

On a wider note. With the copyright laws keeping books out of the public domain for so long you have to wonder, "Will today’s books have much relevance to children 150 years from today?"
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