Giorgio Nurigiani

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Giorgio Nurigiani (Armenian: Ջորջո Նուրիջանի, 1892–1981) was an Italian writer, publicist, linguist and historian from Rome. He is of Armenian origin.[1]

Italian – Macedonian relations

He was born in Livorno. His grandfather's brother was the Patriarch of Armenian Catholics of Constantinopole.[2] Before World War II, Nurigiani resided in Sofia (Bulgaria), where he learned about the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and he started to support their ideals. He wrote a couple of books and studies on Macedonian matters.[3] In 1967 he collaborated with the Macedonian linguist Naum Kitanovski and they published an Italian – Macedonian dictionary.

Works

  • Macedonia Yesterday and Today (1967)
  • The Autocephalous Macedonian Ortodox Church and Its Head Dositej (1968)
  • The Macedonian Genius Through the Centuries (1972)

Notes

  1. ^ On the Dissemination of Bulgarian Literature in Italy, Novinite.com
  2. ^ Artsvi Bakhchinyan, Prominent Armenians from Ancient Times to the Present, 2002, ISBN 99930-2-415-5, p. 168
  3. ^ Encyclopedia Macedonica, Skopje 2009, pg. 1060