Simone_Assemani

Simone Assemani

Simone Assemani

Italian Orientalist (1752–1821)

Simone Assemani (February 19, 1752 – April 7, 1821), grand-nephew of Giuseppe Simone Assemani, was born in Rome.

Globus caelestis Cufico-Arabicus Veliterni musei Borgiani, 1790

He was professor of Oriental languages in Padua. He is best known by his masterly detection of the literary imposture of Giuseppe Vella, a Maltese priest, which claimed to be a history of the Saracens in Syria.[1]

Major works

Numismatics

  • Museo Cufico Naniano / illustrato dall' Abate Simone Assemani. Padua 1787–88. Microfilm-Edition Urbana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois 1998.
  • Sopra le Monete Arabe effigiate. Padua 1809.
  • Spiegazione di due rarissime medaglie cufiche della famiglia degli Ommiadi appartenenti al Museo Majnoni in Milano. Milan, 1818.

Orientalism

  • Saggio sull'origine culto letteratura e costumi degli Arabi avanti Maometto. Padua 1787.
  • Globus caelestis Cufico-Arabicus Veliterni musei Borgiani (in Latin). Padova: Tipografia del Seminario <Padova>. 1750.
  • Catalogo De'Codici Manoscritti Orientali Della Bibliotheca Naniana / Compilato Dall' Abate Simone Assemani Professore Di Lingue Oriental. Padua 1792.

References

  1. [1]
     One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Assemani s.v. 4. Simon". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 779.
  • della Vida, Giorgio Levi (1962). "ASSEMANI, Simone". Dizionario biografico degli Italiani. Vol. 4.


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