L’italiano nel Mediterraneo e nelle ex colonie africane

Rosa Piro is Full Professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Her historical-linguistic research spans from medieval texts— with particular attention to the language of medicine and mysticism— to contemporary Italian. She has published the critical edition of the Almansore (SISMEL, 2011), Glossario leonardiano di anatomia (Olschki 2019), and L’italiano della medicina (Carocci 2022).

Giorgio Banti has taught General Linguistics and Glottology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, in Potenza, and at the University of Naples L’Orientale, where he also taught Somali Language and Literature. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in the countries of the Horn of Africa, focusing on linguistic research as well as on local oral and written literatures. He has published scholarly contributions on Somali, Oromo, Saho, Nara, Old Harari, Arabic, Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, and several other languages.

Paolo Miccoli holds a PhD in Italian Linguistics. His research interests focus on the spread of Italian worldwide, particularly in former colonial contexts, as well as on lexicographic analysis of recent multilingual literary production. He has collaborated with the Multimedia Museum of the Italian Language, curating the section devoted to the presence of Italian around the world, and with the Lessico Etimologico Italiano, for which he authored entries on Germanic loanwords.