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This paper focuses on the points of Dante Alighieri’s works where Venice is evoked, or where Dante uses terms of Venetian origin or pertinence. A short inventory of these occurrences is provided, and the most interesting words (they are in particular nautical terms like ‘arsenal’, ‘artemon’, ‘burchio’, ‘impegolar’, ‘palmizar’, ‘pegola scaula’, ‘terzariol’) are presented through their respective articles written in the frame of the lexicographical project VEV – Vocabolario storico-etimologico del veneziano.

The paper presents the general structure of the research project Vocabolario storico-etimologico del veneziano (VEV), funded by the Swiss National Fund, and in particular the entry magazén, a word of Arabic origin, whose etymology and history are described in order to explain its widespread diffusion in the European languages and its peculiar semantic trajectory (from ‘storage’ to ‘wineshop’, in Venetian, and through the French word magasin, probably borrowed from Italian, to English and Global magazine ‘newspaper’).

This paper presents an octacore DCO, implemented in a 28 nm CMOS technology, able to achieve an outstanding phase noise performance: −126 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from the 10.7 GHz carrier with 173 mW power consumption. The design is scalable, as the network coupling the oscillator cores can be reconfigured allowing to switch off some cores to save power without incurring in any additional phase noise penalty other than the one expected from the reduction of the number of the active cores. The DCO achieves a 27% tuning range with 6 MHz frequency resolution.

L’un des critères suivis pour la répartition des territoires de langue romane consiste à reconnaître des macro-régions en les distinguant selon la période d’émergence des langues néolatines qui y sont parlées. Ainsi, la Romania antiqua correspond aux territoires sur lesquels elles se sont développées par continuité ininterrompue avec l’Antiquité; la Romania nova correspond aux territoires où les langues romanes ont été exportées durant l’Age moderne (l’Amérique ou l’Afrique hispanophone et francophone). Ainsi, la Romania submersa comprend les terres où la latinisation ancienne a été éradiquée pendant le Moyen Age (comme dans l’Afrique septentrionale), ou plus récemment, mais après une très longue permanence (p. ex. la Dalmatie).

Cet article concerne la diffusion apres et au dehors de la litterature des Troubadours d'un mot-cle de la poesie provencale: fin'amor. En particulier, sur la base de plusieurs temoignages edites et inedits, la diffusion posthume de cette iunctura est documentee dans les documents des marchands et des notaires du Nord de l'Italie pendant la deuxieme moitie du XIVe siecle avec une signification tout a fait innovante par rapport a la valeur originaire, soit dans l'expression pret »pro fino amore« (ou, en vulgaire, »per fin amor«) dans le sens de ’sans interet‘ (mieux: sans interet declare, selon l'usage typiquement medieval de l'interet financier dissimule pour des raisons religieuses).

In this paper, we sift the evidence for overdifferentiated gender marking on lower numerals in Medieval Italo-Romance. While the dialects of most of Northern Italy still preserve a masculine vs feminine contrast on ‘two’ and ‘three’ to this day, their ancestors in the Middle Ages, as reflected in early Italo-Romance texts, featured in addition a third form of each (doa, trea), which was selected by just a few nouns ending in -a (e.g. Old Venetan doa para ‘two pairs’). These forms, it is argued, are not innovations – unlike claimed by some – but rather the legitimate outcome of previously regular neuter agreeing forms, to be traced back to (late) Latin in a straight line. By the time the earliest extant documentation of Northern Italo-Romance emerged, these neuter forms of the numerals were quite isolated in the respective systems, as neuter agreement had long been obliterated on other agreement targets (residual persistence of a-agreement on adjectives – it is also shown – is much more sporadic in Medieval Northern Italy than in the South). Such isolation made the occurrence of doa (alongside masc. doi and fem. doe) a case of overdifferentiated gender marking.

This essay offers an overview of vernacular textual cultures in Padova during the reign of the Carrarese family (1318–1405), especially during the second half of the fourteenth century, a period when diverse types of vernacular texts—literary, legal and commercial—emerge from official and semi-official cultural mechanisms of production, from the court and the chancery to scientific studies. This rapidly diversified production in the vernacular is so abundant that it allows us to study closely not only the development of old Paduan dialect but also its noteworthy variety of linguistic registers which utilize essentially two incumbant models: written Latin and a Tuscan-based literary vernacular. These rich textual resources offer us key data in reconstructing both the linguistic and cultural histories of this important northern Italian center of textual production.

The article focuses on some areas of intersection of Romance philology and medieval epigraphy: these two disciplines naturally interact in the field of the medieval epigraphic production written in neo latin languages, i.e. a sort of texts that is – for some reasons – an exception for both of them. On the one side, medieval epigraphy is a relatively young discipline, mainly devoted to documents written in Latin (they are indeed the large majority of its research topics); on the other side, Romance philology is a discipline born and raised on the study of texts mainly drafted in parchment and paper. Thus, these disciplines must integrate and adapt their respective methodology when they turn to a sort of production which is generally unusual for both of them. A methodological reflection is integrated, in this article, by the edition (or critical re-edition) of some epigraphic texts from Italy, France and Portugal.

This work individuates in the Italian autobiography of the late 18th century the most relevant cases of literary elaboration of some topoi related to linguistic awareness and the lifespan. Describing life as a linguistic (and literary) transformation of an individual from the childish ignorance to the maturity is an evident narrative strategy in the well-known masterpiece of Vittorio Alfieri’s Vita , the most elaborate example of a literary autobiography in the Italian literature. Late-modern Italian autobiographers show a typical tendency towards the description of linguistic troubles and of the individual’s linguistic learning process.