Aldo Duro (25 January 1916 – 11 July 2000) was an

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and

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoreti ...

. He worked for both the

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and the

Enciclopedia Italiana The ''Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere e Arti'' (Italian for "Italian Encyclopedia of Science, Letters, and Arts"), best known as ''Treccani'' for its developer Giovanni Treccani or ''Enciclopedia Italiana'', is an Italian-language en ...

, of which he was director of the lexicography. Duro was also the director of the Italian Vocabulary.

Biography

Aldo Duro was born on 25 January 1916 in Zara, in the Austro-Hungarian empire (today Zadar, Croatia). Duro graduated from Pisa's Normale. He had the chance to study and work with such linguists as

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and Bruno Migliorini. He collaborated with the latter on ''Prontuario etimologico della lingua italiana'' (1950). The same year, in 1950, he became a lexicographer at the ''

Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana The ''Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere e Arti'' (Italian for "Italian Encyclopedia of Science, Letters, and Arts"), best known as ''Treccani'' for its developer Giovanni Treccani or ''Enciclopedia Italiana'', is an Italian-language en ...

''. The lexicography published from 1955 to 1961 by the Enciclopedia Italiana is to be attributed to him. Initially he was the editor-in-chief of the lexical section of the '' Dizionaṅo Enciclopedico'', and in 1970 he became the director and author of the ''Vocabolario della lingua italiana'' ("vocabulary of the Italian language"). From 1964 to 1972 he was the director of the ''Vocabolario storico'' at the

. Duro was one of the first Italian linguists to make use of "the new tools of linguistic analysis offered by computer science." In 1975 he published the ''Dizionario della lingua e della civiltà italiana contemporanea'' in collaboration with

Emidio De Felice Emidio De Felice (Milan, 1918 – Genoa, 1993) was an Italian linguist and lexicographer. He became a university professor in 1963, teaching linguistics at the University of Genoa. Author of Italian language dictionaries, grammar books and latin ...

. Duro also published a work on Dalmatia and the extinct

Dalmatian language Dalmatian () or Dalmatic (; dlm, langa dalmata, link=no or simply ; it, lingua dalmatica, dalmatico; sh, dalmatski) was a Romance language that was spoken in the Dalmatia region of present-day Croatia, and as far south as Kotor in Monteneg ...

. He died in 2000 in Rome.

Partial Bibliography

* ''Gabriele D'Annunzio, vate d'Italia'', Zara, Tip. E. De Schonfeld, 1939. * ''Linguistica e poetica del Tommaseo'', Pisa-Rome, Vallerini, 1942. * ''Immagini e ritmi: elementi di stilistica e metrica: per il ginnasio e le scuole medie superiori'', Bari, L. Macri, 1947. * ''Grammatica italiana: La formazione della Lingua'', Turin: G. B. Paravia e C., 1950. * ''Prontuario etimologico della lingua italiana'', co-author Bruno Migliorini, Turin, Paravia, 1950. * ''Dizionario della lingua e della civiltà italiana contemporanea'', co-author

, Palermo, Palumbo, 1974. * ''Vocabolario italiano'', co-author Emidio De Felice, Turin, ''Società editrice internazionale'' - Palermo, Palumbo, 1993.

References

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