Keywords

• On the context of the Italian situation as it is portrayed by Tullio De Mauro in his Storia linguistica dellâ€
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• Italia unita (1963)
• S. Gensini tracks down
• questions and follows the positions expressed by Alessandro Manzoni and Giacomo Leopardi in the field of language
• productionâ€
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• s condition and linguistic â€
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• besides literary â€
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• usage. Different for their nature and results
• but taken in a moment of narrow contemporaneity
• Manzoni and Leopardiâ€
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• s reflexions give voice to a common distress of linguistic alienation