Giuseppe Piccio was a

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literary critic and editor of the

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literary magazine ''L’Alba''. An instructor at the Marco Foscarini Royal Gymnasium, Piccio also compiled the ''Dizionario veneziano–italiano'', published in 1916, significantly at a time when

had been gradually losing favor to Tuscan even among Venetian literary circles. The ''Dizionario'' remains one of the few extant dictionaries of Venetian to this day.

Bibliography

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Impressioni sull'Iacopo Ortis
' (

Voghera image:Voghera Castle.jpg, The Castle of Voghera in a 19th-century etching. Voghera (Emilian dialect, Vogherese dialect of Emilian: ''Vughera''; Latin language, Latin: ''Forum Iulii Iriensium'') is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Pavia i ...

, 1886) * ''L’Alba'' (

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, 1896–1901) *
Dizionario veneziano-italiano: Con note grammaticali e fonologiche seguite da testi dialettali
' (Venice, 1916)

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Giuseppe Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Josephus, Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. The feminine form of the name is Giuseppa or Giuseppina (given name), Giuseppina. People wit ...

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