Giorgio Nurigiani

Giorgio Nurigiani (Armenian: Ջորջո Նուրիջանի, 1892–1981) was an Italian writer, publicist, linguist and historian from Rome. He is of Armenian origin.[1]

Italian – Macedonian relations

He was born in Livorno. His grandfather's brother was the Patriarch of Armenian Catholics of Constantinopole.[2] Before World War II, Nurigiani resided in Sofia (Bulgaria), where he learned about the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (United) and he started to support their ideals. He wrote a couple of books and studies on Macedonian matters.[3] In 1967 he collaborated with the Macedonian linguist Naum Kitanovski and they published an Italian – Macedonian dictionary.

Works

Notes

  1. On the Dissemination of Bulgarian Literature in Italy, Novinite.com
  2. Artsvi Bakhchinyan, Prominent Armenians from Ancient Times to the Present, 2002, ISBN 99930-2-415-5, p. 168
  3. Encyclopedia Macedonica, Skopje 2009, pg. 1060


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