À propos de l’édition italienne (2020) de Viva Voce : une Retractatio et ses échos

Around the Italian Edition (2020) of Viva Voce : A Retractatio and its Resound

After the deep epistemological change impelled by the 1992 edition of the book Viva Voce, its new Italian edition was published (2020), carefully translated, improved and extended with a supplementary chapter X, Retractatio, mainly thanks to the accurate collaboration of a brilliant Italian team of scholars. Its main target was to create an up-to-date work, to make it more easily available, and last but not least to check the global results about our way of thinking and sketching the newly created historical period usually designated as Late Antiquity, mainly under the main topics of culture, literacy, oral and written communication, gathering innovative datas about language evolution from Latin to Romance languages.