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Giorgio Levi Della Vida (August 22, 1886, Venice - December 25, 1967, Rome) was an Italian Jewish linguist who focused on Hebrew, Arabic, and other Semitic languages, as well as on the history and culture of the Near East. Events 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Events 274 - Roman Emperor Aurelian Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language The Semitic languages are a Language family whose living representatives are spoken by more than 467 million people across much of the Middle East, B Syria - Belka Woman from Damascus Arab from Baghdadjpg|thumb|Inhabitants of the Near East late nineteenth century

Born in Venice to a Jewish family originally from Ferrara, he moved with his family first to Genoa and then to Rome, from whose university he graduated in 1909 with the Hebraist Ignazio Guidi. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Genoa ( Genova, ˈdʒɛːnova in Italian; Zena in Genoese and Ligurian; Genua in Latin and archaically in English Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Ignazio Guidi (1844-1935 was an Italian orientalist He became Professor at the University of Rome. Immediately after graduation, he participated in numerous research expeditions to Cairo, Athens (for the Italian School of Archaeology), and Crete. Cairo () which means "the Vanquisher" or "the Triumphant" is the capital and largest city of Egypt. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's Crete ( Greek: Κρήτη transliteration: Krētē, modern transliteration Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the He returned definitively to Rome in 1911, where he worked with the great historian of the Near East, Leone Caetani, on the editorial staff of the "Annals of Islam". Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Leone Caetani ( September 12 1869 – December 25[[ 935]] Duke of Sermoneta (also known as Prince Caetani) was an Italian scholar He developed strong ties of friendship with Michelangelo Guidi, the son of Ignazio and himself an illustrious Islamist, as well as with Gaetano De Sanctis, Ernesto Buonaiuti, Giorgio Pasquali, Luigi Salvatorelli, and the Barnabite priest Giovanni Semeria. Islamism ( Islam + ism; Arabic: al-'islāmiyya) a set of ideologies holding that Islam is not only Gaetano De Sanctis ( 15 October 1870 – 9 April 1957) was an Italian Historian and Lifetime senator (1950-1957 Ernesto Buonaiuti (1881 - 1946 was an Italian Historian, Philosopher of Religion, Christian priest and anti-fascist Luigi Salvatorelli (1886-1974 was an Italian historian and publicist born in Marsciano, Perugina Italy, He was a political journalist in 1919 The Barnabites, or Clerics Regular of Saint Paul ( Latin: Clerici Regulares Sancti Pauli, abbr Since he was always deeply interested in problems of religion, he used his connections with Father Semeria and Ernesto Buonaiuti (excommunicated for his Modernist convictions) to undertake some of the biblical studies neglected by the completely secular basis of his cultural upbringing. Modernism describes an array of Cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century

From 1914 to 1916 Levi Della Vida headed the department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Eastern University of Naples. The Naples Eastern University ( Italian: Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", better translated as Oriental Studies University of Naples During the First World War, he acted as an interpreter, achieving the rank of lieutenant. Lieutenant (abbreviated Lt or Lieut) is a Military, Naval, Paramilitary, Fire service, Emergency medical services Afterwards, he was assigned to the department of Semitic Philology at the University of Torino, a post he held only from the end of his military service until 1919. The University of Turin ( Italian Università degli Studi di Torino, UNITO is a University in the city of Turin in the Piedmont region In 1920 he went to work for Ignazio Guidi at the University of Rome as a professor of Hebrew and Comparative Semitic Languages. Ignazio Guidi (1844-1935 was an Italian orientalist He became Professor at the University of Rome. Sapienza University of Rome ( Italian Sapienza Università di Roma) is a coeducational autonomous state university in Rome, Italy The Semitic languages are a Language family whose living representatives are spoken by more than 467 million people across much of the Middle East,

In those years he began to collaborate with some newspapers: he wrote for the Roman daily Il Paese, which ceased publication at the end of 1922, after its offices were destroyed by Fascist squadristi. The term Italian Fascism denotes the totalitarian Fascismo political movement that ruled Italy from 1922 until 1943 under leader Benito Mussolini For other uses and meanings see Blackshirts (disambiguation. The Blackshirts ( Italian: camicie nere, Levi Della Vida was, in his turn, also a victim of aggression on the part of the Fascists. At the invitation of Salvatorelli, who was the associate managing editor, he began to contribute to La Stampa, where he testified to the political climate in Rome in the days following the passing of Giacomo Matteotti. La Stampa (literally “The Press” is one of the best-known and most widely sold Italian daily Newspapers Published in Turin, it is distributed Giacomo Matteotti ( 22 May 1885 – 10 June 1924) was an Italian socialist politician On occasion, he also had contact with various leaders of the anti-Fascist opposition, including Giovanni Amendola, Carlo Sforza and Claudio Treves. Giovanni Amendola ( April 15 1882 – April 7 1926) was an Italian journalist and politician noted as an opponent of Fascism Conte Carlo Sforza ( January 24 1872 - September 4 1952) was an Italian Diplomat and Anti-Fascist Politician Claudio Treves ( 24 March 1869 - 11 June 1933) was an Italian politician and journalist In 1924, he became president of the National Union of Liberal and Democratic Forces, founded by Amendola, and the following year he signed the Manifesto of Anti-Fascist Intellectuals. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Giovanni Amendola ( April 15 1882 – April 7 1926) was an Italian journalist and politician noted as an opponent of Fascism By his autobiographical testimony, he claims not to have been particularly interested in political activism; however, he was convinced that such a time of crisis, when Italy was faced with the rise of Fascism, required every citizen to assume responsibility. The term Italian Fascism denotes the totalitarian Fascismo political movement that ruled Italy from 1922 until 1943 under leader Benito Mussolini

In the 1920s he made the acquaintance of Giovanni Gentile, another professor in Rome, and he began to collaborate with him on the Enciclopedia Treccani as an expert in Hebrew and other Semitic languages. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada Giovanni Gentile (dʒoˈvɑnni dʒenˈtile May 30, 1875 April 15, 1944) was an Italian neo- Hegelian Idealist The Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze lettere ed arti ("Italian Encyclopaedia of Science Letters and Arts" best known as Enciclopedia Treccani or simply

He was one of the twelve Italian university professors who refused to pledge the oath of loyalty to the Fascist leader and regime imposed by article 18 of the Ordinary Law on August 28, 1931. Events 475 - The Roman General Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his Capital Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Following this refusal, the next year Levi Della Vida was expelled from his post at the university. He continued, however, his collaboration with the Enciclopedia Treccani, of which he was the editor of the entry on Hebraism, among others. Hebraism is the identification of a usage trait or characteristic of the Hebrew language. After that, he was assigned by the Vatican Library to catalog its treasury of Arabic manuscripts, from which he culled a first selection for publication in 1935, followed by a second thirty years later. The Vatican Library ( Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) is the Library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City. Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

After the promulgation of the racial laws, in 1939 he fled to the United States, where he was offered teaching posts at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia as well as at the University of San Diego in California, at whose library he would generously endow a university chair later in his life, as a sign of gratefulness for the hospitality. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə The University of San Diego is a Roman Catholic University in San Diego, California. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean.

He returned to Italy in 1945, where he was reinstated to his post at the University of Rome, where he taught Muslim history and culture until his retirement in 1959. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar In 1947 he was elected a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Accademia dei Lincei, (literally the " Academy of the Lynxes" but also known as the Lincean Academy) is an Italian science academy located He died in Rome in 1967 at the age of 81, after a brief illness. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar.

The University of California Los Angeles has dedicated an editorial series in his name: "The Giorgio Levi Della Vida Series in Islamic Studies. The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United " They also reward the best studies in Islamic culture with the "Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award. "

Publications

Levi Della Vida's interests and linguistic research spanned vast areas including Semitic philology, Jewish and Islamic history, the Punic alphabet, and Syriac literature:

In addition to his scholarly publications, he also penned an autobiography in 1966, the recently reedited Fantasmi ritrovati (Napoli, Liguori, 2004).

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