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2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

ITAL 414 - History of the Italian Language


(3 units)

Prerequisite: Upper division standing or consent of instructor.
Examines the main developments in the transformation from Latin to Italian, and the debates on what constitutes the Italian language (questione della lingua) 1200 - present, including the contributions of Dante Alighieri, Machiavelli, Alessandro Manzoni, the Italian diaspora and recent immigration.

Letter grade only (A-F). Double Numbered with: ITAL 514