Abstract
In 1979, on the occasion of the National Congress on the technical lexicon of arts and crafts held in Cortona between May 28 and 30 of that same year, Michele Cordaro, reflecting on the similarities and differences between the technical lexicon of arts and crafts and The restoration lexicon referred to the latter as a “very poor and very special restoration lexicon”, “generic and vague”, characterized by “particular dialect and jargon terms, even associated with the tradition of a specific workshop” and by the frequent use of «the possibilities offered by the analogical and metaphorical structure of language, which inertia conceptualizes phenomena whose form is not well known»