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Giorgio Levi Della Vida
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Giorgio Levi Della Vida

جورجو ليفي دلّا فيدا

Notable figure 1886–1967 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 390; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 511 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Levi Della Vida, Giorgio (1886-1967)

From Italy; worked in the United States

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic in Rome; editor of Ibn al-Kalbi (1928)

Biography

He was Professor of Arabic and comparative Semitic languages at the University of Rome. He edited Ibn al-Kalbi's Nasab fuhul al-khayl (Leiden, 1928), and wrote on the Fuhulat al-shuʿaraʾ attributed to al-Asmaʿi, on Ibn Sallam's Tabaqat al-shuʿaraʾ (1919–1920), and on the poetry of Yazid I and al-Samawʾal. He catalogued the Arabic manuscripts of the Vatican Library (1935).