Carlo Battisti
Italian linguist and actor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Carlo Battisti was an Italian linguist and actor, famed for his starring role in Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D.. Biography Battisti was born in Trento, Austria-Hungary in 1882 . He studied linguistics at the University of Vienna and founded, along with Ettore Tolomei, the nationalist journal Archivio per l'Alto Adige in 1906. In the early 1920s he became professor of glottology of the University of Florence. Throughout his life he published numerous books and articles on a wide gamut of linguistic topics, ranging from phonetics to Italian dialectology to toponomastics and Vulgar Latin. In recognition of his accomplishments and expertise, Battisti was elected to the Italian national language academy, Accademia della Crusca, in 1925. A member of the National Fascist Party himself, Battisti maintained always a sympathetic position towards the Italianization program which the Fascism pursued towards the South Tyrolean populations and opposed strongly the return of the German-speaking people, who had to leave their region due to the South Tyrol Option Agreement of 1939, to the Alto Adige after World War II.
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