Le false carte d'Arborea-un groviglio filologico-linguistico_una truffa genialeVirdis (Atti del XXVIII Congresso internazionale di linguistica e filologia romanza (Roma 18-23 luglio 2016)

Maurizio Virdis

2018-01-01

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Abstract

Known is the question of the Arboreal fakes who held in check so much Italian and even European intellectuality, until the falsity was proved by the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1870. However, it is worthwhile to retrace the arguments of the learned members of the commission academics to verify some weaknesses, more so than the cultural history of the era than of the individual scholarly personalities. This certainly does not call into question the veracity / falsity of the Arborea cards (in today's eyes the falsity appears so obvious, that anyone with a minimum of knowledge approaches the alleged medieval documents, can only laugh), but to retrace a cultural chapter (although abnormal) of Sardinian cultural history and also to trace a moment history of European philology.