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Pietro Metoscita

بطرس المطوشي

Notable figure 1569–1625 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 1040 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 1055404414: Metoscita, Petrus (1569–1625), Cypriot Jesuit and Maronite, professor of Arabic in Rome

From Cyprus; worked in Italy

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Grammarian; Institutiones linguae Arabicae (Rome 1624)

Biography

A Maronite from Cyprus, he was one of the first pupils of the Maronite College in Rome and joined the Society of Jesus in 1597. He taught Arabic at the Collegio Romano and was sent to the East, to Aleppo (1615) and then Iraq (1616). He wrote in Latin an Arabic grammar compiled from Arabic sources, the Institutiones linguae Arabicae (Rome 1624), which its printer dedicated to Cardinal Francesco Barberini. He died in Rome.