Franceschini, A museum of the Italian language in Florence

(ANSA) - FLORENCE, FEBRUARY 08 - Could find home in a part of the large complex of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, which the Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Dario Franceschini visited today, the new Museum of the Italian language. A few weeks ago, during an initiative in Palazzo Vecchio, the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte launched the proposal to raise the new structure in the capital of the island, in the city where the Accademia della Crusca has been based since 1583, the oldest linguistic academy in the world. That of creating a language museum is an idea put forward by many important Italianists and has not been abandoned since the great exhibition on the Italian language opened in 2003 at the Uffizi in Florence, 'Where the yes sounds. Italians and their language '.
Franceschini, accompanied by the mayor of Florence DarioNardella and the city councilor for culture Tommaso Sacchi, carried out an inspection in the monumental complex of Santa Maria Novella, which on one side overlooks the railway station and on the other on the square of the homonymous basilica. In particular, the visit focused on the wing that overlooks via della Scala, about 2500 square meters large. "There is an ideamolto beautiful on which scholars have worked - said the minister - who have invited the Italian State to have a place that recalls the long journey of the Italian language.
The idea is very positive, I don't think there is a more suitable city than Florence, and therefore we are thinking about that ". Franceschini explained that the future museum will have to be in connection with the Accademia della Crusca, and underlined that the fact that" this project is being carried out as we are about to enter the 700th anniversary of Dante's death takes on an even stronger meaning ". (ANSA).