id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9775 Venetian literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 1127 160 61 View a machine-translated version of the Italian article. A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing Italian Wikipedia article at [[:it:Letteratura in lingua veneta]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|it|Letteratura in lingua veneta}} to the talk page. Subsequently, the literary production in Venetian underwent a period of decline following the collapse of the Republic of Venice, but survived nonetheless into the twentieth century to reach peaks with wonderful lyrical poets such as Biagio Marin of Grado. The first evidence of the birth of vernacular Venetian (and Italian) is the Veronese Riddle, dating between the end of the eighth and the early ninth century, written in a language halfway between Latin and the vernacular. Both Ruzante and Goldoni, following the old Italian theater tradition (Commedia dell'Arte), used Venetian in their comedies as the speech of the common folk. Culture articles needing translation from Italian Wikipedia ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9775.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9775.txt