NIKOLA TOMAŠIĆ (NICCOLO TOMMASEO)

Born at 9 October 1802, died on 1 May 1874. He was 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.