Author: Francesco Arnaldi
Born: 5 Oct 1897
Died: 28 Jun 1980
Bio: Born in Codroipo (Udine), he dead in Rome.

Scholar of Latin literature and Latin language (both classical and medieval), lexicographer. 

Professor at the Scuola Normale di Pisa (1923-1933).

Editor (From 1933) and director (from 1950 to death) of the "Latinitatis Italicae Medii Aevi inde ab a. CDLXXVI usque ad a. MXXII lexicon imperfectum", a project of the Union académique internationale,

Professor at the University of Naples (1936-1967, retired).

His son is the mediaeval historian Girolamo Arnaldi (born in Pisa, 1929).