About the book: year / "The Italian language becomes literary relatively late (after 1250): other neo-Latin languages ​​became isolated almost two centuries earlier. This phenomenon is explained by the stability of the Latin tradition in Italy. Nowhere was Latin so tenacious, nowhere was it so widely used as in Italy. The breeding grounds for knowledge of the Latin language in Italy were schools, the existence of which did not cease here either in the Gothic or Lombard times.…»