Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi

Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi (9 April 1930 – 29 November 2017) was an Italian scholar and writer.

Life 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.