Abstract
The language of sermons is one of the study areas on the forms and the communicative strategies developed by the Catholic Church. Often in the preaching language, elegance and rules bent to pedagogical criteria in order to catch up a greater number of worshippers.
Even Domenico Lentini, a minor clergyman active in Basilicata at the beginning of XIX century, addressed to communicative effectiveness, while working meticulously on the words, structures and congruity of his own texts. These also were the ways through which, in many regions of the Italian peninsula, the words of the still little known Italian language, reached the ears of the people.
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