Gaspare Ungarelli (19 November 185226 February 1938
) was a Bolognese historian, librarian, and author at the
Archiginnasio Communal Library. He is most notable for his compilation of the vocabulary of the
Bolognese dialect
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in his book ''Vocabolario del dialetto bolognese''.
Biography
Gaspare got his first job at the age of 15-16 at the civil registry of
Bologna
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, where he would work for six years until being transferred to the Archiginnasio Communal Library as an author. He spent the rest of his career there until he retired in 1908.
Selected works
* ''Il generale Bonaparte in Bologna'', 1921
References
Further reading
* Trebbi, Oreste, ''Gaspare Ungarelli'' (Aldina, 1938)
1852 births
1938 deaths
19th-century Italian historians
20th-century Italian historians
People from Bologna
Italian librarians
19th-century Italian writers
20th-century Italian writers
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