Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi (9 April 1930 – 29 November 2017) was an Italian scholar and writer.
Life
Altieri Biagi graduated from the
University of Florence, where she studied
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...
, and was a professor of the History of the Italian language at the
University of Trieste since 1967, and at the
University of Bologna
The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...
since 1974.
Her numerous studies have helped to promote a knowledge of the Italian language, stylistics and jargons.
She wrote essays on the language of important historical characters, as
Galileo Galilei
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. Commonly referred to as Galileo, his name was pronounced (, ). He was ...
and
Francesco Redi
Francesco Redi (18 February 1626 – 1 March 1697) was an Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet. He is referred to as the "founder of experimental biology", and as the "father of modern parasitology". He was the first person to cha ...
.
She was further a member of
Crusca Academy
The Accademia della Crusca (; "Academy of the Bran"), generally abbreviated as La Crusca, is a Florence-based society of scholars of Italian linguistics and philology. It is one of the most important research institutions of the Italian language ...
and of
Science Academy of Bologna. Biagi died on 29 November 2017 in Bologna, aged 87.
Works
* ''Galileo e la terminologia tecnico-scientifica'', Florence, Olschki, 1965;
* ''Lingua e cultura di Francesco Redi, medico'', Florence, Olschki, 1968:
* (with G. Devoto) ''La lingua italiana. Storia e problemi attuali'', Torino, ERI, 1968;
* ''La lingua in scena'', Bologna, Zanichelli, 1980;
* (with Bruno Basile) ''Scienziati del Seicento'', Milan-Naples, Ricciardi, 1980;
* (with Bruno Basile) ''Scienziati del Settecento'', Milan-Naples, Ricciardi, 1983;
* ''Linguistica essenziale'', Milan, Garzanti, 1985;
* ''La grammatica dal testo'', Milan, Mursia, 1987;
* ''L'italiano dai testi'', Milan, Mursia, 1988;
* ''L'avventura della mente. Studi sulla lingua scientifica dal Due al Settecento'', Naples, Morano, 1990.
References
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1930 births
2017 deaths
Italian women essayists
Italian essayists
Women linguists
University of Florence alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bologna
Writers from Venice