Francesco Maria Appendini

Francesco Maria Appendini, Germanized Franz Maria Appendini, (* November 4, 1768 in Turin, † January 1837 in Zadar ) was an Italian philologist and historian.

Life

After Francesco Maria Appendini had completed his studies in Rome, he joined the Order of Piaristen. Later he served as rector of a college of the Order. This sent him afterwards as a high school prefect to Ragusa. There he worked on with Illyria and Illyrian language, about which he wrote philological treatises, which were very well received. These is his writing Notizie istoricho - critiche sulle ANTICHITA, storia e letteratura de ' Ragusei with which he provided services to the Slavic literature by Entwined jumbled facts.

Works

• Notizie istoricho - critiche sulle ANTICHITA, storia e letteratura de ' Ragusei ( two volumes, Ragusa 1802-1803 )
• Grammar of the Illyrian- ragusanischen dialect (Ragusa, 1808)
• De praestantia et vetustate linguae illyricae ejusque necessitate ad populorum origines investigandas (Ragusa 1810)
• Memorie spettanti ad alcuni uomini illustri Cattaro (Ragusa 1811)
• Esame critico sulla questione intorno alla Patria di S. Girolamo ( Zara 1835)
• Memorie sulla vita e sugli scritti di Giov. Francesco Gondola (Ragusa 1837)
• De vita et scriptis Bernardi Zamagna (Ragusa )
• La vita e delle opere del Petrarca l' esame