Maurizio Trifone
Maurizio Trifone (born 1953) is an Italian linguist and lexicographer. Biography. Trifone is professor of Italian language at the University of Cagliari. From 1995 to 2005 he was professor of Lexicography and Lexicology at the Foreigners University of Siena. Previously, he was lexicographer and etymologist at the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani. He has led research about Italian linguistic history from the Middle Ages to the present day. He has authored "Il Devoto-Oli dei sinonimi e contrari", a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms published by Le Monnier in 2013. Together with Luca Serianni he is in  charge of the "Vocabolario della lingua Italiana Il Devoto-Oli". From 2000 to 2005 he was director of the Language Centre at the Foreigners University of Siena and he held training courses for Italian teachers in many countries around the world. He has created "Affresco Italiano", an Italian language course for foreigners in 6 volumes (from A1 to C2 levels). Since 2006 he is the editor of the magazine «Letterature straniere &» (Foreign Literatures &).