Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi

Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi (9 April 1930[1] – 29 November 2017) was an Italian scholar and writer.

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.

[2] She wrote essays on the language of important historical characters, as Galileo Galilei and Francesco Redi.

[4] Biagi died on 29 November 2017 in Bologna, aged 87.