Fiorentino is the main dialect of the city of Florence and the surrounding areas. It's part of the Tuscan dialect and is very similar to modern Italian. In fact, many linguists and scholars of Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch thinks that modern italian is "the modern Florentine." Its vocabulary and its pronunciation is almost identical to Italian, but the "c" hard, when it is between two vowels (as in the Cat), is pronounced like an "h" in English.

At the time of unification of Italy was chosen as the language used by putting an end to centuries of debate, which had also participated Dante (in De vulgari Eloquentia) which saw two major factions, one supporting the creation of an Italian on the basis of a dialect and another that was to create a new language that takes the best from the different dialects. Took off in the early nineteenth century the first current, largely due to the prestigious opinion of Alessandro Manzoni (well-known is the story concerning the choice of language for the drafting of Promessi Sposi and washed clothes in the Arno ), but many were mossegli criticism from those who argued (in the first place Graziadio Isaia Ascoli) was that the Tuscan dialect as the others and a true national language could have been born just after the encounter between different cultures country.

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