Aldo Duro (25 January 1916 – 11 July 2000) was a Dalmatian Italian linguist and lexicographer.
[1] He worked for both the Accademia della Crusca and the Enciclopedia Italiana, of which he was director of the lexicography.
Aldo Duro was born on 25 January 1916 in Zara, in the Austro-Hungarian empire (today Zadar, Croatia).
He had the chance to study and work with such linguists as Michele Barbi and Bruno Migliorini.
[2] Initially he was the editor-in-chief of the lexical section of the Dizionaṅo Enciclopedico, and in 1970 he became the director and author of the Vocabolario della lingua italiana ("vocabulary of the Italian language").