For a History of the deonymic Quarantotto, with a new documentation on a fourteenth-century forerunner
Are you already subscribed?
Login to check
whether this content is already included on your personal or institutional subscription.
Abstract
The article traces the history of quarantotto as a noun with the event-related meaning of ‘events of 1848’ and the transferred meaning of ‘chaos, confusion, etc.’, evaluating the relationship between the two meanings and reconstructing the 18th and 19th-century stages of its diffusion and various diasystematic marking, thanks to the examination of new documentation and the conceptual framework provided by the categories of emeronym and deonym; finally, it hypothesizes the existence of a previous quarantotto, possessing the same semantic values, referring to the year of the great ‘morìa’ of 1348.
Keywords
- deonymics
- lexicalization
- Risorgimento
- Black Death
- 1848
- 1348
