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Errico Vitto

إرّيكو فيتّو

Notable figure 1844–1904 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 366; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 814 · Second source: British Library, catalogue record: Ibn Malik, L'Alfiiah, translated by Errico Vitto (Beirut: Imprimerie des Belles-Lettres, 1898)

From Italy; worked in Lebanon

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Edited and translated Ibn Malik's Alfiyya (Beirut, 1898)

Biography

He was the Italian consul in Beirut. There, in 1898, he published Ibn Malik's Alfiyya on grammar with a translation and commentary, and in the same year Hasan Quwaydir's Nayl al-arab with an Italian translation.