Maurizio Trifone


Maurizio Trifone is an Italian linguist and lexicographer.

Biography

Trifone is professor of Italian language at the University of Cagliari.
From 1995 to 2005 he was professor of Lexicography and Lexicology at the Foreigners University of Siena.
Previously, he was lexicographer and etymologist at the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani.
He has led research about Italian linguistic history from the Middle Ages to the present day.
He has authored Il Devoto-Oli dei sinonimi e contrari, a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms published by Le Monnier in 2013. Together with Luca Serianni he is in charge of the Vocabolario della lingua Italiana Il Devoto-Oli.
From 2000 to 2005 he was director of the Language Centre at the Foreigners University of Siena and he held training courses for Italian teachers in many countries around the world.
He has created Affresco Italiano, an Italian language course for foreigners in 6 volumes.
Since 2006 he is the editor of the magazine «Letterature straniere &».

Main works