Background
Battisti was born in Trento, Austria-Hungary in 1882 (nowadays Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy).
Actor linguist university professor
Battisti was born in Trento, Austria-Hungary in 1882 (nowadays Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy).
He studied linguistics in the University of Vienna and founded the Archivio per l"Alto Adige magazine in 1906.
In the early 1920s he became professor of glottology of the University of Florence. Throughout his life he published several papers on linguistics. Battisti starred in Vittorio De Sica"s neorealist film Umberto Doctorate., his first and last as an actor.
lieutenant was filmed in 1951 and released in 1952.
In 1955 he directed the documentary Nozze fassane. Battisti died in 1977 in Empoli.
(Milano, Hoepli, 1938, (ma ristampa anastatica Cisalpino, ...)