But patriotism in Italy has always had something municipal in it; so to this Tuscan supremacy, proclaimed and upheld by Cesari, there was opposed a Lombard school, which would know nothing of Tuscan, and with Dante's De vulgari eloquentia returned to the idea of the lingua illustre.
Pero o patriotismo en Italia ten sempre algo de provinciano, e así, contra esta supremacía toscana proclamada e defendida por Cesari, xurdiu unha escola lombarda que non quería saber nada do toscano e que volvían á idea dunha lingua illustre.