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Il contributo ricostruisce la figura e la carriera accademica di Celestina Milani (Milano 1933 - Milano 2016), glottologa e pioniera degli studi sul greco miceneo, proiettandole sullo sfondo della contemporanea evoluzione dell'Università italiana., The paper reconstructs the person and academic career of Celestina Milani (Milan 1933 - Milan 2016), glottologist and pioneer in the studies on Mycenaean Greek, projecting them against the background of the evolution of the Italian University in the last decades of the 20th century up to her demise.

Review by subjects of Celestina Milani's scientific production in the field of Latin, and particularly mediaeval Latin language and literature.

Il volume raccoglie una serie di saggi che ricostruiscono la figura, la carriera e le direttrici di ricerca di Celestina Milani (Milano 1933-Milano 2016), glottologa e pioniera degli studi sul greco miceneo.

The volume aims to highlight the changes that have occurred in the transition from Late Antiquity to Medieval times from an istitutional, socio-economical and linguistic point of view with a special emphasis on marginal phenomena (geografic,themathic,documentary), in order to identify new communication and interpretation models

In Anglo-Saxon England wisdom was essentially handed down in the oral tradition. It was concrete, obvious, communal and popular and therefore accessible to all. The Anglo-Saxons valued wisdom which is why they expressed it in maxims, gnomes, and proverbs. The gnome, maxim, proverb or brief, pithy, sententious saying was employed in Anglo-Saxon verse sometimes to expound proverbial or folk wisdom, sometimes more elaborately to affirm a moral, or define a virtue or a vice. The concise brevity of gnomes, their invariable appositeness, framed in the alliterative pattern of Anglo-Saxon verse, endows them with a forthright memorability that is the outstanding feature of the type. To the Anglo-Saxon poet - of whose literary and folk heritage they formed a part - gnomes provided a fund of moral aphorisms from which he was able to draw whenever a particular episode in a poem needed to be enlightened, or its significance enforced, by the sententious assertion of a widely accepted truth.

During the Carolingian age the European linguistic landscape is characterised by a high degree of diglossia: the new International Latin (where the principle "one sound - one letter" was followed) lives together with the new local languages, that begin their autonomous development. Examples of this situation can be found in glossaries, in Liturgical Latin and particularly in Gregorian Chant.