Mario Filzi pioniere della sintassi dei dialetti italiani

Mario Filzi, brother of the irredentist Fabio executed with Cesare Battisti in 1916, was a student in Vienna of Meyer-Lübke. Shortly before leaving for war, in 1914, on the advice of his teacher he delivered to Monaci for “Studj romanzi” the first part of a pioneering study on the syntax of Italian dialects destined to remain unfinished. The occasion for a re-reading comes from the currently ongoing examination of the Filzi family papers in Rovereto. The essay, a unicum of its kind, is still of great interest, both in relation to its main source, John Ries, and to its later use by Gerhard Rohlfs.