Marco La Piana

Marco La Piana
Born 1883
Piana Degli Albanesi, Kingdom of Italy
Died 1958
Nationality Italian
Occupation Philologist

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.

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

  1. ↑ Robert Elsie (2010), Historical Dictionary of Albania (PDF), Historical Dictionaries of Europe, 75 (2 ed.), Scarecrow Press, p. 267, ISBN 978-0810861886
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