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Giovanni Nencioni.

Publication: Italica
Publication Date: 22-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Giovanni Nencioni.(1911-2008)(In memoriam)

Article Excerpt
With the death of Giovanni Nencioni Italy loses its dean of Italian linguistics, an innovative scholar, university professor, and a visionary President of the Accademia della Crusca. After completing his thesis on trial law under the direction of Piero Calamandrei at age 21, the young legal scholar began a career in the Ministry of Education in 1937. It was especially during the post-war years that Nencioni closely followed scholastic policies at a national level, while becoming at the same time increasingly involved in the study of linguistic theory, thanks in part to Vittorio Bertoldi. In one of his first works (Idealismo e realismo nella scienza del linguaggio, 1951) Nencioni engaged in a study of Croce's relationship with linguistics. He began teaching at the University...



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