Affiliation

Grammarian; studies of faʿul and the masdar in Arabic

Biography

He worked in Rome and published most of his research in the journal Orientalia, which appears there. He wrote on the pattern faʿul in Arabic grammar (1960) and on the masdar (1965), on translation from Greek into Arabic (1956) and on the development of the Semitic languages (1956). He also published selections from al-Imlaʾ by Abu Bakr al-Isfahani (Rome, 1941).