Ti riporto il log completo del file, così che non ci siano dubbi.
`This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=pdflatex 2008.4.5) 9 APR 2008 12:18
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yphenation, italian, italian, loaded.
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Language: italian 2005/11/17 v1.2r Italian support from the babel system
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Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
362 strings out of 95080
4353 string characters out of 1183029
54269 words of memory out of 1500000
3618 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
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Come vedi, non mi fa quello che dici te, ma mi scrive le due parole unite
`Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 3–3
[] \OT1/cmr/m/n/10 tradizionale operazione`
Eppure, come si legge all’inizio, babel e l’italiano sono abilitati. No?
Grazie ancora