The prize is awarded every year to the author of the best dissertation on Italaian linguistics written outside Italy.

Both Accademia della Crusca president Claudio Marazzini and the association Amici dell'Accademia della Crusca-Onlus appraised the awardee at the ceremony held in Ravenna, Italy.

Bálint Huszthy presented some of the significant points of his work.