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Giovanni Pagni

جوفاني باجني

Notable figure 1634–1676 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), p. 208 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Pagni, Giovanni (1634-1676), Italian physician and scholar

From Italy; worked in Tunisia

Field: Dialects

Affiliation

Glossary of Tunisian Arabic, a source of Dozy

Biography

An Italian physician from Pisa sent in 1667 to the court of the Bey of Tunis, he compiled there a glossary of colloquial Arabic, which the editor of his letters left out and which survived in manuscript in the Laurenziana in Florence. Michele Amari had it copied for Dozy, who drew on it in the Supplément and counted it among the dictionaries of the modern language that help to read medieval Arabic.