Английская Википедия:Celso Cittadini
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox scholar Celso Cittadini (1 April 1553 – 29 March 1627) was an Italian grammarian and philologist.
He was the author of important works in which he demonstrated the emergence of Romance languages from Vulgar Latin and the also defined phonetic laws that highlight the correlation between certain Latin vowels and their equivalents in Tuscan.
Biography
Celso Cittadini was born in Rome into a family of noble origins which counted the poet Cecco Angiolieri among its ancestors. He studied Greek and Latin languages and classics, and travelled often. As court secretary, he moved from Rome first to Parma to work for Duke Ranuccio, then to Urbino under Francesco Maria II Della Rovere, and finally to Milan to Cardinal Federico Borromeo.Шаблон:Sfn
He returned to Rome in 1581, and following Petrarch's model wrote a songbook of madrigals and sonnets for the noblewoman Hippolita Calcagni known as Fiamma, entitled Rime platoniche.Шаблон:Sfn He travelled again in 1589, and in the same year wrote the Apologia delle donne under the name Infiammato. This marked his transition from Petrarchist poet to antiquarian and philologist.Шаблон:Sfn
He moved to Siena and married Eufrasia Petroni. He was chosen as the tutor of Cosimo, son of Ferdinando I de' Medici, and in 1598, on the recommendation of Ferdinando, he was appointed to the chair of Tuscan language and 'perpetual archivist' of Siena. A scholar of heraldry, he reconstructed the family tree of some of the older Sienese families.Шаблон:Sfn He actively dedicated himself to the study of grammar and linguistics, as well as the history of the Italian language.
Major works
In 1601, he published the Treaty on the true origin, and the process, and the name of our language.Шаблон:Sfn He made original use of epigraphic and literary evidence to argue that Latin evolved into the vernacular independently of the ‘barbarian’ invasions.Шаблон:Sfn He appended to this publication a Trattato degli articoli e di alcune particelle della volgar lingua,Шаблон:Sfn in which he explains the use of pronominal particles, simple prepositions and articles; in the last case he demonstrates the derivation from the nominative case of Latin pronouns.Шаблон:Sfn In 1604, he published The origins of common Tuscan speech,Шаблон:Sfn in which he identified ten forces which determined the nature of the vernacular.Шаблон:Sfn
In 1721, almost a hundred years after his death, Girolamo Gigli published a collection of his major works, plus the posthumous Degl'idiomi toscani.Шаблон:Sfn
References
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