Marco La Piana
Marco La Piana | |
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Born | 1883 Piana Degli Albanesi, Kingdom of Italy |
Died | 1958 |
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation | Philologist[citation needed] |
Marco La Piana (1883–1958) was an Italian scholar of Arbëresh origin. La Piana gave his contribute through his studies on Albanian language and Arbëresh dialects.[citation needed]
Biography[]
La Piana was born in Piana degli Albanesi (Albanian: Hora e Arbëreshëvet) near Palermo in Sicily. He is the author of a number of studies in Albanian philology, including Il catechismo albanese di Luca Matranga, 1592, da un manoscritto Vaticano (The Albanian Catechism of Lekë Matrënga, 1592, from a Vatican Manuscript), Grottaferrata 1912, Prolegomeni allo studio della linguistica albanese (Introduction to the Study of Albanian Linguistics), Palermo 1939, and Studi linguistici albanesi: i dialetti siculo-albanesi (Albanian Linguistic Studies: The Albanian Dialects of Sicily), Palermo 1949.[1]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Robert Elsie (2010), Historical Dictionary of Albania (PDF), Historical Dictionaries of Europe, 75 (2 ed.), Scarecrow Press, p. 267, ISBN 978-0810861886, archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-06
- 1883 births
- 1958 deaths
- Albanologists
- Linguists from Italy
- Italian people of Arbëreshë descent
- People from Piana degli Albanesi
- 19th-century Italian people
- 20th-century Italian people
- 19th-century Albanian people
- 20th-century Albanian people
- 20th-century linguists