Imminent publication (March 2015):

The Church and the Languages of Italy before the Council of Trent. Ed.
Franco Pierno. Toronto: PIMS, 2015
(Studies and Texts 192; Toronto Studies in Romance Philology 3)
Approx. 350 pp. € Essays in Italian and English € ISBN 978-0-88844-192-8 €
Cloth € $90

In recent decades, historians of language have directed increasing
attention to the relationship between the Italian language and the world
of religion, transforming what was once a sidebar in university textbooks
into a privileged chapter. The importance of the topic is manifest: since
its beginnings, religion has been intertwined with matters of language,
for the Church has continuously educated speakers and readers, especially
through preaching, the translation of sacred texts, and the diffusion of
devotional works in the vernacular.

Contributors
Francesco Bruni - Vittorio Coletti - Carla Damnotti - Dorothea Kullmann -
Rita Librandi - Nicoletta Maraschio - Carla Marcato - Franco Pierno -
Giuseppe Polimeni - Marco Prina - Wanda Santini - Raymund Wilhelm - Miriam
Wittum - Olga Zorzi Pugliese

Editor
Franco Pierno is Associate Professor in Italian Linguistics and an
associate of Trinity College in the University of Toronto. His main field
of research is the relation between languages of Italy and the Church. He
is the author of Postille spiritual et moral (Venise, 1517), an edition
and linguistic analysis of the first Italian biblical commentary (2008),
and the editor of Bernardino Ochino's Apologi (2013). In 2010, he was
awarded a research grant by the Social Science and Humanities Research
Council of Canada to study Italian texts published in Geneva during the
years of John Calvin¹s religious and political authority.

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