The guardians of the Italian language have accused the country’s education ministry of packing a new school text with dozens of English words and phrases, in the latest row over the growing hold of English over the language of Dante.

The Accademia della Crusca, which keeps an ever-watchful eye on the creeping use of English, said it was “deeply concerned” that the text about entrepreneurship in business was peppered with words such as team-building, start-up, case history, coaching and stakeholder, when there were Italian equivalents that could have been chosen.

“The adoption of English phrases and expressions is no longer a one-off but has become institutionalised,” the academy, which was founded in Florence in 1582, said.

The education ministry should have shown more regard for “Italian language and culture,” it said in a statement.

“Rather than teaching students about entrepreneurship, the text seems to promote the systematic abandonment of the Italian language.”

Claudio Marazzini, the president of the academy, said the syllabus was full of English “business-speak” that would be hard for Italian students to comprehend.