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Antonio dall'Aquila

أنطونيو دالّاكويلا

Notable figure 17th century · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 500 · Second source: Qatar National Library, catalogue record: Aquila, Antonio dell', active 1650, Arabicae linguae novae et methodicae institutiones (Rome: Propaganda Fide, 1650)

From Italy; worked in Syria and Palestine

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Author of a Latin grammar of Arabic (Rome, 1650)

Biography

A Franciscan friar and a pupil of Tommaso Obicini, he spent about ten years in Syria and Palestine (1630–1640). He succeeded Father Alessio as teacher of Arabic at San Pietro in Montorio in Rome and supervised the printing of the Arabic Bible. His Latin grammar of Arabic, Arabicae linguae novae et methodicae institutiones, was printed by the Propaganda Fide press in Rome in 1650.