I’m an Italian disunification maximalist. AMA.
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oh, and German too. distinct but related.
What's your favourite Italian prog / krautrock?
#progstr
Venite al nord dove ci staccheremo di nuovo da Roma, se sapete parlare anche il tedesco potete contribuire a costruire un nuovo Liechtenstein.
dude I’m way beyond “north and south”. we’re talking Sicily, Calabria, Apulia, Naples, Rome/Papal States, Marche, Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Venice, Genoa, Lombardy, Piedmont … maybe even finer distinctions. these can be kingdoms if necessary/desired, I don’t really care.
I'm talking about the occupied austrian territory becoming sovereign again
How do you square your position with respect to Dante’s general thesis in “De vulgari eloquentia”?
probably would have been better to keep using Latin and, in doing so, not set the groundwork for local dialects and their cultural significance to go extinct/merge.
I see the point but I don’t think I agree. I don’t think we can blame The Divine Comedy for being *too* good that it managed to codify or vaunt Florentine dialect into a generally used form of Italian. Nor does he deny the beauty and use cases of other dialects in D.V.E. And the use of a common Italian (as opposed to Latin) allowed for a much greater portion of the populace to have access to the beauty and ideas that inhere in The Divine Comedy. I think of it as Latin = Closed-Source Protocol, whereas Italian = Open-Source Protocol.
Incredibly noble ideal. Ditto for your other comment about Germany.
I share your ideal, and raise it to disunification of France and Spain too, and probably Poland.
Yes, please bring back the city states