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 | | The present-day activity of the OVI is the continuation of a project started by the Accademia della Crusca in 1965 with funding from the C.N.R. This project, a new historical dictionary of Italian, was to be the heir of the glorious "Vocabolario degli Accademici", but with the difference of not being prescriptive (i.e. |
 | | From the beginning, the Accademia della Crusca decided to make use of computers to manage the documentation, to a large extent new to the lexicographical tradition. |
 | | In 1973 the Accademia della Crusca decided to split the projected dictionary in two sections, divided by the symbolical date of 1375, the year of Giovanni Boccaccio's death, and to concentrate the work on the oldest section, which required a different methodology than the more recent section. |
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