Simone Assemani
Simone Assemani, grand-nephew of Giuseppe Simone Assemani, was born in Rome.
He was professor of Oriental languages in Padua. He is best known by his masterly detection of the literary imposture of Giuseppe Vella, a Maltese priest, which claimed to be a history of the Saracens in Syria.
Major works
Numismatics
- Museo Cufico Naniano / illustrato dall' Abate Simone Assemani. Padua 1787–88. Microfilm-Edition Urbana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois 1998.
- Sopra le Monete Arabe effigiate. Padua 1809.
- Spiegazione di due rarissime medaglie cufiche della famiglia degli Ommiadi appartenenti al Museo Majnoni in Milano. Milan, 1818.