Bruno Migliorini (; 19 November 1896 – 18 June 1975) was an Italian linguist and philologist. He was the author of one of the first scientific histories of

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and was president of the

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Biography

Migliorini was born in

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. He studied at Ca' Foscari university in

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, then in the faculty of Letters of the

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. After the Italian defeat in the Battle of Caporetto (1917), his family was forced to move to

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. There, at the University La Sapienza, he met his masters, the philologists Ernesto Monaci and Cesare De Lollis, and, from 1920, collaborated to '' La Cultura'', a journal whose founders included De Lollis himself and

Giovanni Gentile Giovanni Gentile (; 30 May 1875 – 15 April 1944) was an Italian neo-Hegelian idealist philosopher, educator, and fascist politician. The self-styled "philosopher of Fascism", he was influential in providing an intellectual foundation for ...

. He was chief editor of the '' Enciclopedia Italiana'' from 1930 to 1933, when he succeeded Angelo Monteverdi as professor of

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and literatures at the University of Fribourg, where Migliorini remained until 1938. Thenceforth he was the first professor of History of Italian Language, a newly created position at the University of Florence, which he kept until 1967. In 1939, together with

Giacomo Devoto Giacomo Devoto (19 July 1897 – 25 December 1974) was an Italian historical linguist and one of the greatest exponents of the twentieth century of the discipline. He was born in Genoa and died in Florence. Career In 1939 he founded with Bruno Mig ...

, he founded the journal ''Lingua nostra'' ("Our Language"). From 1949 to 1963 Migliorini was president of the

and, from 1958, he was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. He was one of the main Italian experts of Esperanto. He is one of the authors of a standard pronouncing

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of Italian, the ''Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia'', or ''DOP''. He died in Florence on June 18, 1975.

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