Capitolo 20
knowledge of the Latin of the common people they miss us these two
all-important sources of information. It happened to only two Roman
writers, Petronius and Apuleius, to amuse their farmers writing
realistic histories or histories with realistic characteristics and the Roman
grammarian also felt a the greatest contempt for the popular Latin or a greater
the indifference to him that we feel to-day. This feeling was separated, as us
knows, from the great humanists of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,
when the revival of interest in the Greek and Latin languages and
literatures start. Petrarch, Knoll Bracciolini and the other great
leaders in the movement pertained to with the literary aspects of the
classics and the researchers of following generations, till now as them
studied the language, it confined their attention to that of the great Latin
stylists. The first student to conceive some existence of the popular Latin
as a form of discourse that differed from the formal literary Latin, seems to
you/he/she has been the French researcher Henri Etienne. In a small brochure on the
language and style of Plautus, written toward the end of the sixteenth one
century, he noticed the similarity between French and the language of the
Latin playwright, without, however, clearly perceiving that the reason for
this similarity placed in the fact that the comedies of Plautus reflect the
language spoken of his/her time and those French and the other Novel
languages have developed out of this, rather than from the literary Latin. Not
up to that the media of the eighteenth century clearly this truth was
recognized, and then almost simultaneously on both the sides of the Rhine.
You/he/she had gone away for the nineteenth century, however to furnish scientific
test of the correctness of this hypothesis, and it was an appropriate thing
what a the existence of a line not rout of the connection among the popular Latin
of the third century before ours it was, and the Romantic languages of the
nineteenth century, it would be due to be established to the same one lasted by a