Abstract: The process which led to the constitution of the Italian language in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was dominated by the model of fourteenth-century Florentine literature, established as a norm by Bembo. This process, as well as the articulations of the model and its rules, is studied by way of the tools developed in response : manuals, collections of poetry, observations, dictionaries, rimarii, and even the literary programme of G. Ruscelli and V. Borghini’s criticism of it.
