«Il Predicatore» di Francesco Panigarola e la lingua dell’eloquenza sacra

Francesco Panigarola’s book Il predicatore, published after the author’s death in 1609, was one of the most influential treatises about vernacular preaching in the seventeenth century. It is a common opinion that the linguistic prescriptions contained in the book chapter Apparato per la seconda parte follow the path traced by Pietro Bembo and Benedetto Varchi. However, a close reading shows that Panigarola supports a new linguistic model, more open to the needs of modern times