Professor Gianrenzo P. Clivio (1942-2006) was full professor of Italian linguistics at the University of Toronto, where he taught courses in Italian dialectology and linguistics, Romance philology and Italian stylistics. He was the president of the Canadian Society for Italian Linguistics (1980-85), president of the National Congress of Italian Canadians (Ontario, 1980-81) and a member of the executive committee of the Dante Alighieri Society from 1973 to 1976. His articles appeared, among others, in the following learned journals: Studi piemontesi, Il Veltro, L'Italia Dialettale, Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie. He was the author of 26 books, including Storia e antologia della letteratura piemontese (Torino: Centro di Studi Piemontesi, 2001) and An Introduction to Italian Linguistics (with M. Danesi; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000). His article on the Piedmontese dialect appears in the most useful reference to Italian dialect studies, entitled I dialetti italiani. Storia Struttura Uso, edited by Manlio Cortelazzo, Carla Marcato, Nicola DeBlasi, Gianrenzo Clivio. Torino (UTET, 2002: 151-195).
May the interview with him keep the memory of his love of dialects alive.
Professor Gianrenzo P. Clivio (1942-2006) was full professor of Italian linguistics at the University of Toronto, where he taught courses in Italian dialectology and linguistics, Romance philology and Italian stylistics. He was the president of the Canadian Society for Italian Linguistics (1980-85), president of the National Congress of Italian Canadians (Ontario, 1980-81) and a member of the executive committee of the Dante Alighieri Society from 1973 to 1976. His articles appeared, among others, in the following learned journals: Studi piemontesi, Il Veltro, L'Italia Dialettale, Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie. He was the author of 26 books, including Storia e antologia della letteratura piemontese (Torino: Centro di Studi Piemontesi, 2001) and An Introduction to Italian Linguistics (with M. Danesi; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000). His article on the Piedmontese dialect appears in the most useful reference to Italian dialect studies, entitled I dialetti italiani. Storia Struttura Uso, edited by Manlio Cortelazzo, Carla Marcato, Nicola DeBlasi, Gianrenzo Clivio. Torino (UTET, 2002: 151-195).