Dalla ‘langue’ alla ‘parole’: verba manent. Scritti di Federico Albano Leoni

Elda Morlicchio is full professor of German Language and Linguistics and former Rector of the University of Naples L’Orientale (2014-2020). She cooperates with the Lexicographical Center of the ‘Lessico Etimologico Italiano’ of the Mainzer Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur and is responsible for editing the Germanisms section of the Lessico. Since 2018 she has been Director of the Journal «Annali – Sezione Germanica». Her research interests are focused on the linguistic and cultural contact between the Germanic world and Italy, from the Early Middle Ages to the present. Among her publications: Introduzione allo studio della lingua tedesca, Bologna 1988 (with F. Albano Leoni) and La Filologia germanica e le lingue moderne, Bologna 2009 (with  S. Leonardi).

Valeria Micillo is full professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Naples L’Orientale. She is member of the Editorial board of the journal «Annali-Sezione germanica» and in charge of the Germanic Philology section. Her studies focus mainly on grammatical literature (Third Icelandic grammatical Treatise, Ælfric), rhetorical tradition and linguistic thought in the Germanic world, and especially in the Old English and Old Norse areas. Among her research themes are modes of expression of the fantastic, marvellous and monstrous in the Old English and Old Icelandic literatures (Beowulf, 2008; sagas, 2010, 2016), including modern rewriting (J. Gardner’s Grendel, 2016). She edited some German glosses in ms Admont 756, an unedited XII century collection of grammatical texts in Latin (in Studies on Late Antique and Medieval Germanic Glossography and Lexicography, 2018). Her current research project focusses on Old English hagiographic prose.

Francesca M. Dovetto, Full professor of Historical and General Linguistics and member of the PhD Board in Philology, Department of Humanities, University of Naples Federico II. She is member of the Editorial board of «Archivio Glottologico Italiano» (Firenze), and chief editor of the series "Linguistica delle differenze" (Roma, Aracne). Her research interests are focused on the history of linguistics, metalinguistics, lexical studies and etymology. At present she is working on Speech Pathologies from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and in particular the history of Deaf Reeducation, Speech Disorders in adult and advanced age and in the context of neurodegenerative diseases. Among her publications: Luigi Ceci. Lezioni di linguistica generale, Roma 2015 (with  T. De Mauro) and Il parlar matto. Schizofrenia tra fenomenologia e linguistica. Il Corpus CIPPS, Roma 2013² (with M. Gemelli and Preface by  F. Albano Leoni).