Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi
{{Short description|Italian scholar and writer (1930–2017)}}
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Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi (9 April 1930[http://www.accademicidellacrusca.org/scheda?IDN=1776 Accademicidellacrusca] – 29 November 2017) was an Italian scholar and writer.
Life
Altieri Biagi graduated from the University of Florence, where she studied Linguistics, and was a professor of the History of the Italian language at the University of Trieste since 1967, and at the University of Bologna since 1974.
Her numerous studies have helped to promote a knowledge of the Italian language, stylistics and jargons.[http://www.sbn.it/opacsbn/opaclib?db=solr_iccu&select_db=solr_iccu&nentries=10&from=1&searchForm=opac/iccu/base.jsp&resultForward=opac/iccu/brief.jsp&do_cmd=search_show_cmd&rpnlabel=+Autore+%3D+maria+luisa+altieri+biagi+&rpnquery=%40attrset+bib-1++%40attr+1%3D1003+%40attr+4%3D6+%22maria+luisa+altieri+biagi%22&totalResult=127&ricerca=base See «Sistema Bibliotecario Nazionale» (Italian Library catalogues)]
She wrote essays on the language of important historical characters, as Galileo Galilei and Francesco Redi.
She was further a member of Crusca Academy{{Cite web |url=http://www.accademiadellacrusca.it/m.shtml |title=Accademia della Crusca - Annuario dei soci (lettera A). |access-date=2012-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214000446/http://www.accademiadellacrusca.it/m.shtml |archive-date=2012-02-14 |url-status=dead }} and of Science Academy of Bologna.{{cite web | url=http://www.accademiascienzebologna.it/AccademiaScienze/soci/Soci-Scienze-Morali.htm#1 | title=Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna }} Biagi died on 29 November 2017 in Bologna, aged 87.{{cite web | url=http://www.magazine.unibo.it/archivio/2017/11/30/lutto-in-ateneo-e-scomparsa-la-prof-ssa-maria-luisa-altieri-biagi | title=Lutto in Ateneo. È scomparsa la prof.ssa Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi }}
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.
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Category:Italian women essayists
Category:Italian women linguists
Category:University of Florence alumni