Prose needed to be restored for the sake of national dignity, and it was believed that this could not be done except by going back to the writers of the 14th century, to the aurei trecentisti, as they were called, or else to the classics of Italian literature.
Prózu bolo treba obnoviť pre národnú hrdosť a verilo sa, že to nebolo možné urobiť bez návratu k spisovateľom 14. storočia, k aurei trecentisti, ako sa im hovorilo alebo ku klasike talianskej literatúry.