Agli albori della didattica del romeno in Italia. La grammatica di Romeo Lovera.

Romeo Lovera (1861-1922) holds a prominent place in the renewal of modern language teaching in Italy between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when he embraced and spread the ideas of Wilhelm Viëtor, Otto Jespersen, and Paul-Edouard Passy, the proponents of the "direct method". A translator and author of textbooks for teaching various languages (Italian, German, French, Modern Greek), he was able to consistently apply the new techniques only in the three volumes of his Corso di francese a base intuitive (Intuitive French Course) which are still the subject of in-depth analysis by experts and historians of French language pedagogy. He also wrote a Grammatica della lingua rumena (Grammar of the Romanian Language), which, despite the errors and imperfections in the text, achieved a surprising success (three editions and two reprints). However, he deserves to be remembered for his intense efforts to promote Romanian culture in Italy, a culture with which he became acquainted during a stay in Brăila, where he spent two years teaching French at the "Nicolae Bălcescu" Scientific High School. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]