Angelo Canini
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Angelo Canini (1521–1557) was an Italian grammarian, linguist and scholar from Anghiari
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on the De anima of Aristotle
(Venice 1546). In the same year he translated the commentary on the De mixtione, and the commentary of Simplicius
on the Enchiridion of Epictetus
(a revision of Politian's). He published an edition of Aristophanes
at Venice in 1548 (Aristophanes Comoediae Undecim, Giovanni Griffio).
After time in Spain, he found a patron in Guillaume du Prat, who helped him move to Paris.
He wrote an Aramaic grammar, published in 1554,, and taught Hebrew in Paris in the 1550s. At Paris he taught Greek to Bonaventura Corneille Bertram and Dudithius; he was at the Collège des Lombards and then the Collège de Cambrai. 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
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He died in the Auvergne
, France.
Anghiari
-History:Anghiari is famous for the Battle of Anghiari between Florence and Milan which took place there on June 29, 1440. The battle inspired a fresco in the Palazzo Vecchio by Leonardo da Vinci...
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Life
His first publication was Book II of the commentary of Alexander of AphrodisiasAlexander of Aphrodisias
Alexander of Aphrodisias was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle. He was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria, and lived and taught in Athens at the beginning of the 3rd century, where he held a position as head of the...
on the De anima of Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
(Venice 1546). In the same year he translated the commentary on the De mixtione, and the commentary of Simplicius
Simplicius of Cilicia
Simplicius of Cilicia, was a disciple of Ammonius Hermiae and Damascius, and was one of the last of the Neoplatonists. He was among the pagan philosophers persecuted by Justinian in the early 6th century, and was forced for a time to seek refuge in the Persian court, before being allowed back into...
on the Enchiridion of Epictetus
Epictetus
Epictetus was a Greek sage and Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia , and lived in Rome until banishment when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece where he lived the rest of his life. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses...
(a revision of Politian's). He published an edition of Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete...
at Venice in 1548 (Aristophanes Comoediae Undecim, Giovanni Griffio).
After time in Spain, he found a patron in Guillaume du Prat, who helped him move to Paris.
He wrote an Aramaic grammar, published in 1554,, and taught Hebrew in Paris in the 1550s. At Paris he taught Greek to Bonaventura Corneille Bertram and Dudithius; he was at the Collège des Lombards and then the Collège de Cambrai. 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
Ludovicus Carretus was a physician and a Jewish convert to 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 with the imperial troops who besieged Florence in 1545...
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He died in the Auvergne
Auvergne (province)
Auvergne was a historic province in south central France. It was originally the feudal domain of the Counts of Auvergne. It is now the geographical and cultural area that corresponds to the former province....
, France.