Do not want my RewriteRule to return the URL parameter...

Hi :)

I am trying to get

welcome.html?l=italian

rewritten into

benvenuti.html

by adding the folowing two lines in my .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^l=italian$
RewriteRule ^welcome.html /benvenuti.html [R]

It almost works... besides that I get benvenuti.html?l=italian.

Does anyone know how I get rid of the language parameter?

Any help is greatly appreciated <:)

Thanks,
Stine

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^l=italian$
RewriteRule ^welcome.html /benvenuti.html? [R]
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