Among the 37,000 records preserved in the Archives of the former San Giacomo Psychiatric Hospital in Verona, over one thousand concern soldiers of the First World War. This paper analyses the letters written by three semi-literate soldiers from different Italian areas, highlighting diatopic features and showing how asylum archives can provide crucial evidence for the history of the Italian language.

Variazioni diatopiche negli scritti dei soldati del manicomio San Giacomo di Verona

Chiara Sorrentino
2026-01-01

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Among the 37,000 records preserved in the Archives of the former San Giacomo Psychiatric Hospital in Verona, over one thousand concern soldiers of the First World War. This paper analyses the letters written by three semi-literate soldiers from different Italian areas, highlighting diatopic features and showing how asylum archives can provide crucial evidence for the history of the Italian language.
2026
978-88-3613-682-7
Psychiatric Hospital, Linguistic Varieties, Soldiers, Verona, Popular Writings
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