Giuseppe Piccio was a

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literary critic and editor of the

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literary magazine ''L’Alba''. An instructor at the Marco Foscarini Royal Gymnasium, Piccio also compiled the ''Dizionario veneziano–italiano'', published in 1916, significantly at a time when

had been gradually losing favor to Tuscan even among Venetian literary circles. The ''Dizionario'' remains one of the few extant dictionaries of Venetian to this day.

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Impressioni sull'Iacopo Ortis
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, 1886) * ''L’Alba'' (

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, 1896–1901) *
Dizionario veneziano-italiano: Con note grammaticali e fonologiche seguite da testi dialettali
' (Venice, 1916)

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Giuseppe Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. It is the most common name in Italy and is unique (97%) to it. The feminine form of the name is Giusep ...

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