Category
page 1Western Lombard language

Alessandro Manzoni
Italian writer and poet (1785–1873)
Giuseppe Parini
Italian poet
Carlo Porta
Italian poet
Tommaso Grossi
Italian poet (1790–1853)
Western Lombard
language
Milanese
dialect of Western Lombard
El Biscella
Italian milanese song by Giovanni D'Anzi
Giuseppe Bossi
Italian painter, arts administrator and writer on art. (1777-1815)
Bonvesin da la Riva
Lombard poet
Carlo Maria Maggi
Italian poet (1630-1699)

Domenico Balestrieri
Italian poet
Giovanni Orelli
Swiss writer and poet (1928–2016)

Delio Tessa
Italian poet (1886-1939)
Brianzöö
Western Lombard dialects of Brianza, Italy
Ticinese
dialect
Pavese
Western Lombard dialect
Cremunés
dialect
Mariuccia Medici
actress (1910-2012)
Novarese
dialect
Ossolano
Ossolano is the Western Lombard dialect spoken in the Ossola valley, Northwest Italy.
Spasell
Spasell is a slang of Insubric language, spoken until the 19th century by inhabitants of Vallassina, when they used to go out from the valley for business and they didn't want to be understood by the people. It is characterized by code-words conventionally defined basing on characteristics of the thing or on onomatopoeias; other words have an unknown origin. It has been noted by Carlo Mazza, vicar of Asso, in his book of 1796. He informs us that several slangs have been created in the time, because in the time the words were introduced in the current language, reducing the differences between
Varesino
dialect