Luca Serianni

Serianni was professor of Italian language at Sapienza Università di Roma.

[2] A student of Arrigo Castellani’s, he conducted research about Italian linguistic history from the Middle Ages to the present day.

[3] He authored a reference grammar of the Italian language.

Together with Maurizio Trifone he was in charge of the Vocabolario della lingua Italiana Il Devoto-Oli, and with Pietro Trifone he edited Storia della lingua italiana.

[5][6] In 2002, he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Valladolid.