Linguistic Thought of the Spanish Renaissance and HumanismThe present article examines the linguistic thoughts of the period of the Humanism and Renaissance in Spain comparing with the case of Italy.In Spain, in the end of the 15th century, the philologist Antonio de Nebrija introduced the humanisitic ideas born in Italy, and applied them not only to reform the education of the Latin or the studies of letters in general but also to create the grammar of a vernacular castillian language.In Italy, already in the 14th century, there were great works of literature written by the three most brilliant authors; Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarca.Then during the next two centuries the debates surround the language got intense, and the intellectuals discussed the question of how to establish linguistic norms and codify the language, that is to say which dialect or speech of Italy -like the Tuscan-should be standard of the whole Italian peninsula.This called questione della lingua"question of the language" no longer was a problem exclusively in Italy, rather than the problem of the whole Europe.In Spain, due to its proximity to Italy, that current of thought was introduced and developed pronto.But while then Italy was divided into a number of warring city-states that have distinctive dialects for each, in Spain, contrastively, there was a strong centralized government due to the union of Castille and Aragon in the latter half of the 15th century.This difference of political situations made different atmosphere in the debates about language in each of the two peninsulas.I will describe what was the "questions of the language" and how developed this both in Italy and in Spain.