Challenge: Italian language = Venetian

Your challenge, should you accept it, is to make the Italian language automatically associated with Venetian with a POD no earlier than 1 AD.
 
Didn't the Tuscan dialect become the prestige dialect of Italian because Dante wrote the Divine Comedy in it? So replace Dante with a similarly important and well-known Venetian poet and you'll be at least part of the way there...
 
If Venice had succeeded in uniting the Italian peninsula as Italy (admittedly this would have had to have happened well before the 19th century as with Piedmont in otl), surely Veneto would stand a chance of becoming the lingua franca?
 
Didn't the Tuscan dialect become the prestige dialect of Italian because Dante wrote the Divine Comedy in it? So replace Dante with a similarly important and well-known Venetian poet and you'll be at least part of the way there...
IIRC, Dante was just the crowning touch. Florence was the hot bed of culture in Italy in the Renaissance, and had a decent chance of establishing its dialect as standard even without Dante. Of course, Dante absolutely and positively clinched it!

It might help if Venice (and area) are bigger patrons of the arts, so poets and writers WANT to write in Veneto.
 
It might help if Venice (and area) are bigger patrons of the arts, so poets and writers WANT to write in Veneto.

Definitly. The importance of the florentine dialect was determined by the preminence of the many works written during 11th and 12th century.

It should be noted, though, that italian suffered a strange fate: during 16th century the language stopped to evolve: the intellectuals of the time choose to use only the florentine based as "lingua franca", deeming it the best, and to avoid any use of the other dialects.
Italian language, in other words, crystallized around those years, and, even today, if you are fluent in italian, you can read works written during the reinassance with little or no use of the dictionary.
 
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