Niccolò Tommaseo
Dalmatian Italian linguist (1802–1874) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Niccolò Tommaseo (Italian: [nikkoˈlɔ ttommaˈzɛːo]; 9 October 1802 – 1 May 1874[1]) was a Dalmatian Italian linguist, journalist and essayist, the editor of a Dizionario della Lingua Italiana [it] (A Dictionary of the Italian Language) in eight volumes (1861–74), of a dictionary of synonyms (1830) and other works. He is considered a precursor of the Italian irredentism.[2][3]
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