Lorenzo Renzi

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Lorenzo Renzi (Vicenza, 1939), Italian linguist and philologist.

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Biography

Lecturer of Romance philology at the Paduan Athenaeum, he has chaired the Società Linguistica Italiana. [1]

He is the author of several works in the field of linguistics. [2]

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  1. Renzi Archived 2012-11-28 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Renzi Archived 2009-04-15 at the Wayback Machine



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