Category talk:Italian-language manuscripts

FYI category Italian-language: Veronese Riddle is not written in Italian

 * The Veronese Riddle is not written in Italian. The first sentence in the article's lead sounds the warning: "The Veronese Riddle (Italian: Indovinello veronese) is a riddle written in late Vulgar Latin, or early Romance". The glitch is that (very) late Vulgar Latin essentially is (very) Early Romance (v. Roger Wright. 1982. Late Latin and Early Romance in Spain and Carolingian France. Liverpool: Francis Cairns). Viewed as Early Romance, the language is a vernacular language of Italy, but it's early Venetan, perhaps more precisely Veronese, quite distinct from the Florentine that would much later form the basis of Italian. The category label Italian-language is at best misleading in this case. Barefoot through the chollas (talk) 19:08, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Barefoot through the chollas I've removed the category already. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 19:09, 21 June 2023 (UTC)