Antonio Zoppetti
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Born in Milan in 1965, he graduated in Philosophy from the University of Milan. In 1993, for Editel of Milan he edited the CD-ROM transfer of Giacomo Devoto and Gian Carlo Oli's Il Dizionario della lingua italiana,[1] the first complete digital dictionary marketed in Italy. In the 1990s he created various other pioneering works of digital publishing in CD-ROM and multimedia (film databases, encyclopedias and electronic literary archives) as an editor and as an author. In the 2000s he launched online cultural projects such as the website Linguaggio Globale (active from 2000 to 2015, winner of the “Alberto Manzi Prize” in 2004 for educational communication)[2] and the first Italian blog dedicated to collective writing games (active from 2002 to 2012, awarded in 2003 at the Scrittura mutante competition at the Turin Book Fair). Author of fiction, nonfiction, and linguistics books, since 2017 he has focused primarily on the interference of the English language with Italian.