Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi
Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi 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.
She wrote essays on the language of important historical characters, as Galileo Galilei and Francesco Redi.
She is further a member of Crusca Academy 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:
- La lingua italiana. Storia e problemi attuali, Torino, ERI, 1968;
- La lingua in scena, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1980;
- Scienziati del Seicento, Milan-Naples, Ricciardi, 1980;
- 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.
