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Louis Notari (Monaco, 1879–1961) was a Monégasque poet, who was the pioneer of Monégasque literature. He wrote in theFrench andMonégasque languages.
He wrote in 1931 the final version of the text of theMonaco national anthem and he is considered as the first writer in Monégasque; before him, there was justoral literature. He wrote three books:[1]
Notari's writing in Monégasque has led to a veritable flowering of literature published in the language. A grammar and a dictionary byLouis Frolla and numerous other works, including byGeorges Franzi,Louis Barral and Suzanne Simone (dictionary)Louis Canis,Jules Soccal, Lazare Sauvaigo and Robert Buisson, combine to allow this small country's own language to take its visible and permanent place among the other Romance languages.
However, while a substantial proportion of Notari's work was religious in inspiration, Monégasque is probably unique among the Romance languages in that it possesses, as yet, no Bible translation.
In his researches in Monégasque identity, Notari got in touch in the 1930s with Italian academics sustaining regional languages for a Latin federation pledged to thefascist Italian government.[2] In this way, he wrote a few poems celebratingBenito Mussolini.[3]
In thepost-War era, however, any fascist sympathies which Notari may once have held were not stressed.
The decision by the latePrince Rainier III to sponsor Monégasque teachers in local schools owed much to the groundwork in promoting Monégasque which writers such as Notari and others laid. Louis Notari was also prominent incivil engineering in the Principality, and was noted for his work on Monaco's renownedexotic garden, which annually hosts large numbers of visitors from many countries.
His daughterRoxane became the first woman elected to theNational Council in 1963.[4]
A street in the suburb ofLa Condamine, Monaco, is named after Louis Notari. A library, theBibliothèque Louis Notari, which serves as the nationalcopyright library for Monaco, is also named after him.
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