Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi

Altieri Biagi graduated from the University of Florence, where she studied Linguistics, and was a professor of the History of the Italian language at the University of Trieste since 1967, and at the University of Bologna since 1974. Her numerous studies have helped to promote a knowledge of the Italian language, stylistics and jargons. She wrote essays on the language of important historical characters, as Galileo Galilei and Francesco Redi. She was further a member of Crusca Academy and of Science Academy of Bologna. Biagi died on 29 November 2017 in Bologna, aged 87. ==Works==

• Galileo e la terminologia tecnico-scientifica, Florence, Olschki, 1965; • Lingua e cultura di Francesco Redi, medico, Florence, Olschki, 1968: • (with G. Devoto) La lingua italiana. Storia e problemi attuali, Torino, ERI, 1968; • La lingua in scena, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1980; • (with Bruno Basile) Scienziati del Seicento, Milan-Naples, Ricciardi, 1980; • (with Bruno Basile) Scienziati del Settecento, Milan-Naples, Ricciardi, 1983; • Linguistica essenziale, Milan, Garzanti, 1985; • La grammatica dal testo, Milan, Mursia, 1987; • ''L'italiano dai testi'', Milan, Mursia, 1988; • ''L'avventura della mente. Studi sulla lingua scientifica dal Due al Settecento'', Naples, Morano, 1990. ==References==