Marco La Piana
Marco La Piana was an Italian scholar of Arbëresh origin. La Piana gave his contribute through his studies on Albanian language and Arbëresh dialects.Biography
La Piana was born in Piana degli Albanesi near Palermo in Sicily. He is the author of a number of studies in Albanian philology, including Il catechismo albanese di Luca Matranga, 1592, da un manoscritto Vaticano , Grottaferrata 1912, Prolegomeni allo studio della linguistica albanese , Palermo 1939, and Studi linguistici albanesi: i dialetti siculo-albanesi , Palermo 1949.
