On the other shore : Niccolò Tommaseo and the Adriatic koinè Cover Image

Dall ’altra riva : Niccolò Tommaseo e la koinè adriatica
On the other shore : Niccolò Tommaseo and the Adriatic koinè

Author(s): Roberto Valle
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Local History / Microhistory, 19th Century
Published by: Историјски институт Црне Горe
Keywords: Niccolò Tommaseo; Adriatic koinè; Dalmatia; Italians and Slavs; polycentric and polyphonic civilization

Summary/Abstract: Staying on the other shore of ‘exile’ Niccolò Tommaseo affirms the irreducible otherness and polyphony of the Adriatic koinè, as a floating territory between southern Slavs and Italians. This territory can not be inhabited by those who are rooted in one language and in one nation.Tommaseo stated that the time of the queens and masters of the universe- like that of revolutionary France- had passed, even because of the polycentrism and polyphony of the European civilization. Indeed, European civilization is a set of various civilizations which consist of a „discordant diversity”and an „harmonic variety” put together in one civilization

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 185-195
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Italian
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