Which Italian is the choice one?Dante’s Italian? Boccaccio’s?
A Florentine Italian?
Or Roman?
How many Italians were there when Shakespeare wrote this play?
And which one was the choice?
The Italian language has experienced a world of change over the years – much of which was a homogenization after a great deal of diversity – even after there was an Italy to unify.
Whose Italian was Shakespeare’s?