Berthold Wiese

Berthold Heinrich Friedrich Wiese (19 December 1859, in Rostock – 3 May 1932, in Halle an der Saale) was a German Romance philologist, who specialized in Italian language and literature. In 1903 he became an honorary member of the American Dante Society of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Selected works , 1883 ("On the language of Brunetto Latini") , 1883 (edition of the poems of Leonardo Giustiniani) , 1885 ("Nineteen songs by Leonardo Giustiniani according to old prints") , 1890 ("An Old Lombard legend of St Margaret") , 1898 ("History of Italian literature from its origins to the present day") , 1902 ("Commentary on Dante's Divine Comedy") , 1904 ("Early Italian primer") , 1913 (edition of the Ninfale fiesolano by Giovanni Boccaccio) , 1915 ("Italian phrasebook; pocket dictionary for travel and home")