Da Nova, Ernesto

Short biography

Ernesto Da Nova was the director and editor of Il poliglotta moderno, a series of correspondence educational courses for the teaching of English, French, and German, published by Sonzogno for the first time in 1905. He was not a linguist, but an accountant and “a businessman whose success was in mass-marketing good English and in building a correspondence language school” (Sturiale 2020, 244).