by Cesare Marchi · Rizzoli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817535052
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«Siamo tutti latinisti» is the linguistic popularisation essay by Cesare Marchi, published by Rizzoli in 1986 in paperback (258 pages, in Italian).
The essay brings together around five hundred Latin expressions that survive in everyday Italian: from the bis in the theatre to the quorum of a referendum, from the bonus of an insurance policy to the alibi of a defendant. Marchi explains their use and origin in an accessible tone, showing that Latin remains present in daily conversation even without having studied it.
The original subtitle reads: 'Divagazioni e istruzioni per l'uso delle 500 parole che ogni giorno prendiamo dal latino senza saperlo'. The work belongs to the collection 'Opere di Cesare Marchi'.
Aimed at those who have never studied Latin, have forgotten it, or want to discover its presence in present-day Italian.
