Simone Assemani

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

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

^ 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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[EB1911-1] 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.

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