Angelo Canini (Angelus Caninius; 1521–1557) was an Italian grammarian, linguist and scholar from

Anghiari Anghiari () is a hill town and municipality (''comune'') in the Province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. Bordering ''comuni'' include Arezzo (southwest), Pieve Santo Stefano (north) and Subbiano (west). History The Battle of Anghiari took place on ...

Life

His first publication was Book II of the commentary of

Alexander of Aphrodisias Alexander of Aphrodisias ( grc-gre, Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς, translit=Alexandros ho Aphrodisieus; AD) was a Peripatetic school, Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek Commentaries on Aristo ...

on the ''

De anima ''On the Soul'' (Greek: , ''Peri Psychēs''; Latin: ''De Anima'') is a major treatise written by Aristotle c. 350 BC. His discussion centres on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living things, distinguished by their different op ...

'' of

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

(Venice 1546). In the same year he translated the commentary on the '' De mixtione,'' and the commentary of Simplicius on the ''Enchiridion'' of

Epictetus Epictetus (; grc-gre, Ἐπίκτητος, ''Epíktētos''; 50 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present-day Pamukkale, in western Turkey) and lived in Rome until his banishment, when ...

(a revision of

Politian Agnolo (Angelo) Ambrogini (14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known by his nickname Poliziano (; anglicized as Politian; Latin: '' Politianus''), was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His scho ...

's). He published an edition of

Aristophanes Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme In Ancient Greece, a deme or ( grc, δῆμος, plural: demoi, δημοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states ...

at Venice in 1548 (''Aristophanes Comoediae Undecim'', Giovanni Griffio).Joanna Weinberg, ''A Hebraic Approach to the New Testament'', p. 238-247 in Christopher Ligota, Jean-Louis Quantin (editors), ''History of Scholarship: A Selection of Papers from the Seminar on the History of Scholarship Held Annually at the Warburg Institute'' (2006). After time in Spain, he found a patron in

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, who helped him move to Paris. He wrote an

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grammar, published in 1554, and taught Hebrew in Paris in the 1550s. At Paris he taught Greek to

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and

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; he was at the

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and then the

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. In 1555 he published in Paris a Greek grammar, ''Hellenismus'' (Ellenismos). He also translated into Latin as ''Liber Visorum Divinorum'' a Hebrew work of

Ludovicus Carretus Ludovicus Carretus was a physician and a Jewish convert to Catholic Christianity of the sixteenth century. Life He lived at Florence. He was a native of France and was originally called "Todros Cohen." As the physician of a Spanish duke, he was ...

. He died in the

Auvergne Auvergne (; ; oc, label=Occitan, Auvèrnhe or ) is a former administrative region in central France, comprising the four departments of Allier, Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal and Haute-Loire. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Auverg ...

, France.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Canini, Angelo 1521 births 1527 deaths Linguists from Italy Christian Hebraists