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Angelo Canini
Italian grammarian, linguist and scholar
Italian grammarian, linguist and scholar
Angelo Canini (Angelus Caninius; 1521–1557) was an Italian grammarian, linguist and scholar from Anghiari.
Life
His first publication was Book II of the commentary of Alexander of Aphrodisias on the De anima of Aristotle (Venice 1546). In the same year he translated the commentary on the De mixtione, and the commentary of Simplicius on the Enchiridion of Epictetus (a revision of Politian's). He published an edition of Aristophanes at Venice in 1548 (Aristophanes Comoediae Undecim, Giovanni Griffio).
After time in Spain, he found a patron in Guillaume du Prat, who helped him move to Paris.
He wrote an Aramaic grammar, published in 1554, and taught Hebrew in Paris in the 1550s.{{Cite web
He also translated into Latin as Liber Visorum Divinorum a Hebrew work of Ludovicus Carretus.
He died in the Auvergne, France.
Notes
References
- Joanna Weinberg, ''A Hebraic Approach to the New Testament'', p. 238-247 in Christopher Ligota, Jean-Louis Quantin (editors), ''History of Scholarship: A Selection of Papers from the Seminar on the History of Scholarship Held Annually at the Warburg Institute'' (2006).
- ''Institutiones linguae Syriacae, Assyricae, atque Thalmudicae''
- [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&context=classicsfacpub Christian Aramaism: The Birth and Growth of Aramaic Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century] at p. 7.
- [[Robert Wallace (Unitarian). Robert Wallace]], ''Antitrinitarian Biography'' Vol. II (1850), p. 287; [https://archive.org/details/antitrinitarianb02walluoft online text].
- Henry Hallam, ''Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'', Vol. II (1880), p. 28.
- "Carretus, Ludovicus".
- "Arezzo - Biblioteca - Bibliografia aretina - Sezione XI - C".
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