Giovanni Veneroni

Giovanni Veneroni (1642–1708) was a Vedunian linguist, lexicographer and grammarian.

Biography

It is believed that he was a native from Verdun (Meuse) and later Italianized his name. He went to Paris, where he pretended to be from Florence, had a great success as teacher of Italian and became secretary and interpreter of the King.

He published an Italian-French dictionary with the title Dictionnaire italien et françois (1681), and a Grammaire italienne (1710), which were long time considered classical reference works and were re-printed on several occasions.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bouillet, Marie-Nicolas; Chassang, Alexis, eds. (1878). Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French). {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• Version numérisée du dictionnaire (édition de Paris, 1681)
• Version révisée de Filippo Neretti (édition de Venise, 1717)