Bruno Migliorini

He was the author of one of the first scientific histories of Italian language[2] and was president of the Accademia della Crusca.

There, at the University La Sapienza, he met his masters, the philologists Ernesto Monaci [it] and Cesare De Lollis [it], and, from 1920, collaborated to La Cultura  [it], a journal whose founders included De Lollis himself and Giovanni Gentile.

He was chief editor of the Enciclopedia Italiana from 1930 to 1933 when he succeeded Angelo Monteverdi [it] as professor of Romance languages and literature at the University of Fribourg, where Migliorini remained until 1938.

Thenceforth he was the first professor of the History of Italian Language, a newly created position at the University of Florence, which he kept until 1967.

He is one of the authors of a standard pronouncing dictionary of Italian, the Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, or DOP.