Accademia della Crusca

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Coat of arms from the Vocabolario with the mill

The Accademia della Crusca (from Italian crusca "bran") was founded in Florence ( Italy ) in 1583 . It is considered to be the oldest language society . The task of the company is still the "study and preservation of the Italian language". In 1612, the Society published the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca , the first dictionary of the Italian language , which was published several times in expanded editions until 1923. The plan to revise it as a historical dictionary, which the Academy developed between 1955 and 1985, is now being implemented by an institute of the CNR connected to the Academy as Opera del Vocabolario Italiano .

In the beginning the society consisted only of a group of scholars who jokingly referred to themselves as crusconi "bran flakes". Their goal was to "separate the wheat from the chaff" ( Mt 3,12  EU and Lk 3,17  EU ), Italian il più bel fior ne coglie (from Petrarca , Canzoniere , LXXIII, 36), the Italian language to preserve and promote.

A flour mill was chosen as the symbol of society , with the purity of the flour being a metaphor for the purity of the language . Every member of the society had a nickname and a motto that had something to do with bran ( Italian crusca ) and had to give the Accademia their coat of arms in the form of a bushel . The first German member was the Italophile Prince Ludwig von Anhalt-Köthen , who adopted many of the Crusca customs when the Fruit-Bringing Society was founded in 1617 .

In August 2016, 1302 academics have been recorded since it was founded.

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  1. ↑ literally: "she plucks (from) the most beautiful flower", cogliere [ˈkɔːʎere] "pluck" from Latin colligere.