Talk:Macaronea

Dubious

This article asserts that Macaronea is "considered to be the earliest example of macaronic verse". Yet the linked article cites examples of Latin & vernacular mixtures from the 12th century. No cited sources, and no other sources that I know of, support this claim of priority for Macaronea. LinguaPhile only asserts, "Tifi Odasi, a fifteenth century Paduan author, took the name of his collection of such verse from maccerone, which meant 'peasant dumpling.' Apparently Odasi considered the mixture of languages to indicate a peasant mentality." That's a long way from asserting that his verse was the first to mix languages, an assertion which, at any rate, is easily refuted. Cnilep (talk) 07:59, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merge discussion

Tifi Odasi and Macaronea are both very short articles, the latter tagged as a stub and the former citing only one source. Tifi Odasi is the author of Macaronea, so the topics are closely related. Merging the two articles would seem to improve both. Cnilep (talk) 08:13, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hearing no objection, I have merged the articles. Cnilep (talk) 03:00, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]