Latinitatea limbii și a poporului român – reper de cercetare în activitatea lui Claudiu Isopescu
The Latinity of the Romanian language and people – a benchmark of research in the activity of Claudiu Isopescu

Summary/Abstract: Between 1923 and 1925, Isopescu, a fellow at the Accademia di Romania in Rome, aimed mainly at collecting documents on Romania, preserved in Italian archives, especially documents attesting to the Latinity of the Romanian language and people. Isopescu's research in this first stage began with a study of the old Italian attestations of Romanian Latinity – Antiche attestazioni italiane sulla latinità dei Romeni – a work in which are inventoried opinions of some distinguished Italian humanists, such as: Pomponio Leto, Flavio Biondo, Poggio Bracciolini, Enea Silvio Piccolomini. A second work followed – Notizie intorno ai Romeni nella letteratura geografica italiana del Cinquecento – in which the writings of occasional or amateur geographers, as well as professionals, literate, are subjected to a rigorous analysis, highlighting the progress made by Italians in the sixteenth century – the one compared to those from the 15th century regarding the recognition of the Latinity of the Romanian language. A third work, Documenti inediti della fine del Cinquecento, which analyzes certain unpublished documents from the end of the 16th century, referring to the historical past of the Romanians, is part of the same research direction. The three works, framed in this direction of research, aim to provide answers to a series of issues regarding the Romanian people and the Romanian language and highlight the preservation of the Latin character of the Romanian language and its continuity, through testimonies or information about the distant past of the Romanian people. Their generous and selfless goal was to confirm after careful research the Latin origin of the Romanians based on linguistic, historical and geographical evidence, scientifically documented claiming to Italy the discovery and assertion of Romanian Latinity by its humanists.

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