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Marco La Piana

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Marco La Piana
Born1883
Died1958
NationalityItalo-Albanian Arbëresh
OccupationPhilologist [citation needed]

Marco La Piana (1883–1958) was an Italian scholar of Arbëresh origin. La Piana gave his contribute through his studies on Albanian language and Arbëresh dialects.[citation needed]


Biography

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La Piana was born in Piana degli Albanesi (Albanian: Hora e Arbëreshëvet) near Palermo in Sicily. He is the author of a number of studies in Albanian philology, including Il catechismo albanese di Luca Matranga, 1592, da un manoscritto Vaticano (The Albanian Catechism of Lekë Matrënga, 1592, from a Vatican Manuscript), Grottaferrata 1912, Prolegomeni allo studio della linguistica albanese (Introduction to the Study of Albanian Linguistics), Palermo 1939, and Studi linguistici albanesi: i dialetti siculo-albanesi (Albanian Linguistic Studies: The Albanian Dialects of Sicily), Palermo 1949.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ Robert Elsie (2010), Historical Dictionary of Albania (PDF), Historical Dictionaries of Europe, vol. 75 (2 ed.), Scarecrow Press, p. 267, ISBN 978-0810861886, archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-06