One of the best ways to celebrate Dante on the XNUMXth anniversary of his death. In Florence, his city, the museum of the Italian language will be born. A great project supported by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities that we already had there premature. Now it becomes a reality and its opening is scheduled for 2021. A great tribute to the great poet and lover of the vernacular, Italian, who was among the first to understand the importance of using the vernacular in literary works as well. This great project will be dedicated to him, a precursor of the Italian language, presented in recent days in Florence.
The house of the Italian language, in the complex of Santa Maria Novella
And the place where the museum: the monumental complex of Santa Maria Novella. In particular in the area called the former new monastery of the complex, that is, in the part of the building that overlooks Via della Scala. The place that will be, in fact, the home of the Italian language. The Museum, approved by the council of the Municipality of Florence, will be financed by Mibact. The major project is part of the strategic plan "Major cultural heritage projects". The loan amounts to 4,5 million euros. "The state - Minister Dario Franceschini explained - invested 4,5 million euros for the construction of the first Museum of the Italian language. And the city participated by giving a part of the beautiful complex of Santa Maria Novella, testimony of an important test of collaboration between the various institutional levels.".
A journey into the Italian language through the museum
Not a static museum, though. In fact, the aim is to achieve an innovative structure that allows you to tell and learn about the evolution of the Italian language, its history, among ancient documents, such as the Charter of Capua of 960 and modern ones. It will thus be a journey among the great writers such as Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Ariosto, Galilei, Machiavelli, Leopardi, Manzoni, D'Annunzio, Sciascia.
But with a part dedicated to the evolution of the Italian language today, what it has become, also through the use of social media and digital. And just the minister presenting the project together with the mayor Nardella, made it clear that the idea behind the project it was "that of starting the works of the Museum in 2021, in the year in which the 700th anniversary of Dante's death is celebrated. It was natural that in the debate that has been going on for many years in our country on the lack of a Museum of the Italian language, when the State decided to give a positive answer, the choice could only be Florence for many reasons".
A museum that preserves the memory but is also projected towards the future
And so the Italian language will have its home. In a place that will be recovered and restored. And it will be a museum that will preserve the memory of the history of the Italian language but which will also look to the future, through new technologies. It will thus be accessible to everyone, suitable for the new generations, but also for many writers and scholars. "The birth of the Museum is also the best way to enter this Dante year - clarified Franceschini -. Which will be full of initiatives and full not only of celebrations, but of studies, research, innovation which is the best way to remember Dante ".
The most important Italian experts and scholars in the scientific committee
A museum of the Italian language could not fail to have great and illustrious minds within the scientific committee. Linguists, philologists and historians, members of the Accademia della Crusca and the Accademia dei Lincei. Among them such as Luca Serianni, Giuseppe Antonelli, Lucilla Pizzoli, Marco Mancini, Francesco Bruni, Paolo D'Achille, Nicoletta Maraschio, Michele Cortelazzo. And again Massimo Bray, general director of the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia, Alessandro Masi, general secretary of the Dante Alighieri Society, Luigi Dei, rector of the University of Florence.
