Niccolò Tommaseo
Italian linguist
- Lived
- 1802–1874
- Country
- Italy
Updated September 2026
About Niccolò Tommaseo
Niccolò Tommaseo was a Dalmatian Italian linguist, journalist and essayist, the editor of a Dizionario della Lingua Italiana in eight volumes (1861–74), of a dictionary of synonyms (1830) and other works. He is considered a precursor of the Italian irredentism.
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