LA LINGUA DELLA CHIESA NEL SETTECENTO: UNA RICOGNIZIONE NEL FONDO AGIOGRAFICO << BIBLIOTECA DEI DUCHI DI PARMA >>

The subject of this paper deals with religious language in XVIII century, starting from the seven hagiographic texts of «Biblioteca dei Duchi di Parma», kept in Braidense Library, in Milan from 1938. Its Corpus significantly shows both uniformity and linguistic peculiarities. Through the analysis of the phonetical, morphological, syntactic, textual and lexical phenomena it is clearly shown how the Church aimed to a communicative intelligible vehicle so as to be a modern language. Due to the need to reach more and different people the only possible result is the medietas.