Person
Niccolò Tommaseo
Italian Dalmatian linguist, journalist and essayist
Niccolò Tommaseo (9 October 1802 - 1 May 1874) is an Italian Dalmatian linguist, journalist and essayist, the editor of a Dizionario della Lingua Italiana in eight volumes (1861-74), of a dictionary of synonyms (1830) and other works.
He is considered a precursor of the Italian irredentism.