Paduan dialect

Paduan
pavano
The title page of the Dialogo de Cecco di Ronchitti da Bruzene in perpuosito de la stella Nuova, which uses the Paduan dialect.
Native to Republic of Venice
Region Padua and surrounding areas
EthnicityPaduans
Era14–17th centuries
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
GlottologNone

Paduan[1] is an extinct variant of Venetian that was once spoken in the countryside of Padua from about the 14th to the 17th centuries AD.[2]

The present-day Central Venetian dialects [it], influenced by Venetian proper [it], retain very few traces of Paduan. However, it played a fundamental role in the flourishing of Paduan literature comprising numerous works with humorous themes, both in verse and prose, composed between the 14th and 17th centuries. The first authors to write in Paduan were Nicolò de' Rossi [it] (1308–1309) and Marsilio da Carrara, but the greatest exponent of this current was Angelo Beolco, better known as Ruzante (16th century), who was followed throughout the 17th century by a series of his imitators. Galileo Galilei also wrote, in whole or in part and under a pseudonym, a pamphlet in Paduan named the Dialogo de Cecco di Ronchitti da Bruzene in perpuosito de la stella Nuova.[3]

Characteristics

The most typical feature of Paduan was the extensive use of Metaphony, with the transformation of /e/ e /o/ into /i/: péro "pear" in the plural becomes pìri pómo "apple" in the plural becomes "pùmi". A similar phenomenon occurs in open vowels, which are diphthongised: zucòlo zucchino "courgette" in the plural is "zucuòli".

The Latin suffixes -"atu" and -"ate" are rendered with -"ò" and -"è" : parentò parentado "relative", amistò amicizia "friendship". This phenomenon was recalled and condemned by Dante Alighieri in De vulgari eloquentia.

It is also worth remembering the first person plural of the present indicative in -"ón" or -"óm" (favelóm "let's talk"), later replaced by the form in -"émo" of Venetian origin ("favelémo").[4]

References

  1. ^ Giulia Zanin (2016). The dialects of Veneto: towards a common spelling (PDF). Retrieved 19 December 2025.
  2. ^ "Pavano". Treccani.it. Rome: Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia.
  3. ^ Dell'Aquila, Giulia (2014). Adi (ed.). Atmosfere scenico-teatrali nella prosa critica di Galileo (PDF). La letteratura degli italiani. Archived from the original (pdf) on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2025.
  4. ^ Manlio Cortelazzo (2004). "I dialetti dal Cinquecento al Settecento". In Marsilio (ed.). Manuale di Cultura veneta. Geografia, storia, lingua e arte (pdf) (in Italian). Retrieved 19 December 2025.

Bibliography

  • Antichi testi di letteratura pavana, pubblicati da Emilio Lovarini, Bologna, Romagnoli Dall'Acqua, 1894.
  • Emilio Lovarini, Studi sul Ruzzante e la letteratura pavana, a cura di Gianfranco Folena, Padova, Antenore, 1965.
  • Ivano Paccagnella, Vocabolario del pavano (XIV-XVII secolo), Padova, Esedra, 2012.
  • Pavano entry (in Italian) in the Enciclopedia Treccani
  • Flavia Ursini (2011). "Dialetti veneti". In Treccani (ed.). Enciclopedia dell'Italiano (in Italian). Retrieved 19 December 2025.

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