Associazione ESSPER periodici italiani di economia, scienze sociali e storia
Autore: Mengaldo, Pier Vincenzo Titolo: Note sulle proposizioni participiali nella "Storia d'Italia" di Guicciardini Periodico: Lingua e stile Anno: 2016 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 65 - Pagina finale: 74
This study examines a syntactical structure which is typical of the works of Francesco Guicciardini, especially of his "Storia d'Italia": participle clauses. The author studies two chapters of the book investigating two main groups of such clauses: conjunctive participial constructions and absolute participial constructions. The number of different dependent clauses which so often come before the main clause in Guicciardini's sentence- building is closely related to his efforts to express the complexity of historical events.