Giovanni Veneroni
Giovanni Veneroni was a Vedunian linguist, lexicographer and grammarian.Biography
It is believed that he was a native from Verdun and has later Italianized his name. He went to Paris, where he pretended to be from Florence, had a great success as teacher of Italian and became secretary and interpreter of the King.
He published an Italian-French dictionary with the title Dictionnaire italien et françois, and a Grammaire italienne, which were long time considered classical reference works and were re-printed on several occasions.
