| Summary: | This article aims to investigate the reasons for the quotations from Lorenzo Lippi’s Malmantile racquistato in Carlo Goldoni’s comedy Torquato Tasso. The presence of Malmantile could be explained in light of the crisis the Venetian author went through in that period. On the one hand, Goldoni wanted to defend himself from his detractors’ linguistic accusations by exaggerating Lippi’s model, which symbolised an extravagant (and, by then, irretrievable) Florentine purism. On the other hand, Goldoni’s pragmatic re-use of the source confirms the eighteenth-century metamorphosis of Lippi’s poem into the emblem of an anachronistic Florentinism on the part of literary commentators and the Crusca Vocabulary.
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