Tullio De Mauro#

Tullio De Mauro in Biographical Dictionary of Italians by Federico Albano Leoni
Obituary by Luca Serianni (in Italian)
Obituary by Claudio Marazzini, president of Accademia della Crusca (in Italian)
Raffaele Simone, “Scegliere le parole: una battaglia civile. Tullio De Mauro 1932/2017”, L’Espresso, 15/1/2017, pp. 92-93.

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Tullio De Mauro is the author of a Grande dizionario italiano dell‘uso (1. ed. 1999, 2. ed., 8 vols with docking station, UTET, Torino 2007) http://cultura.utet.it/cultura/catalogo/details.jsp?id=633. The contemporary dictionary contains 250,000 words which in turn become a vocabulary of nearly 400,000 items when words are used in combination, either in common or technical expressions.