Giuliano Bonfante (6 August 1904,

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– 9 September 2005,

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) was an Italian linguist and expert on the language of the

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and other Italic peoples. He was professor of linguistics at the

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and then at the

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. Bonfante was born in

, the son of jurist

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.Bonfante, Pietro http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pietro-bonfante/ He collaborated with his daughter, Larissa Bonfante, in his study of the

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. He became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei in 1958. He died in Rome.

Bibliography

* ''Della intonazione sillabica indoeuropea'' (1930) *''I dialetti indoeuropei'' (

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, 1931) * ''Storia del diritto romano'' 2 v. (1958–59) *''Latini e Germani in Italia''(

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo ...

, 1965) *''La dottrina neolinguistica'' (

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, 1970) *''Studi romeni'' (

, 1973) *''La protopatria degli Slavi'' (

Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...

, 1984) *''Grammatica latina: per le Scuole Medie Superiori''(

, 1987) * ''Lingua e cultura degli Etruschi'' (1985) * ''La lingua parlata in Orazio'' (1994) * ''The origin of the Romance Languages: Stages in the Development of Latin'' (1999) * ''The Etruscan language: an introduction'' (1983; rev. ed. 2002)

Necrology

* http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/necrolog.htm * http://www.ilmanifesto.it/Quotidiano-archivio/10-Settembre-2005/art84.html

References

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