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‖ Della Crusca|ˌdella ˈkruska|
[It. Accademia della Crusca, lit. Academy of the bran or chaff.]
The name of an Academy established at Florence in 1582, mainly with the object of sifting and purifying the Italian language; whence its name, and its emblem, a sieve.
The first edition of its Dictionary, the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca, appeared in 1612, and the fourth, 1729–38, has long been considered as the standard authority for the Italian language. A new edition on more historical lines was begun in 1881.
Hence Della-ˈCruscan a., of, pertaining to, or after the style of the Academy della Crusca, or its methods; also, applied to a school of English poetry, affecting an artifical style, started towards the end of the 18th c.; n. a member of this Academy, or English school of poetry. Hence Della-ˈCruscanism.
One of the noted writers of this school was Mr. Robert Merry, who (having been elected a member of the Florentine Academy) adopted the signature of Della Crusca, whence the name was extended to the school as a whole.
[1796Gifford Mæviad Introd. 8–9 While the epidemic malady was spreading from fool to fool, Della Crusca [i.e. Merry] came over [from Italy], and immediately announced himself by a sonnet to Love..and from one end of the kingdom to the other, all was nonsense and Della Crusca. ]1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 48 Mr. Pratt has certainly indulged too much in the flimsy Della Cruscan style. 1821Shelley Boat on Serchio 67 In such transalpine Tuscan As would have killed a Della-Cruscan. 1857Trench Defic. Eng. Dicts. 7 It is for those who use a language to sift the bran from the flour, to reject that and retain this. They are to be the true Della Cruscans. 1881Athenæum 20 Aug. 230/1 The detestable Della Cruscanism which makes many new volumes of verse a positive offence. |