CANINI, ANGELO. – Eminent Semitic scholar, born at Anghiari, near Arezzo, in 1521, died in Paris in 1557.
He taught, at least as an assistant, various Semitic languages at the Universities of Venice, Padua, and Bologna. He travelled through Spain, whence Francesco I summoned him to Paris to occupy a chair. There he enjoyed the acquaintance of distinguished figures, among them G. Duprat, bishop of Clermont. At only 36 years of age he left the following esteemed works: Institutiones linguarum Syriacae, Assyriacae et Thalmudicae, una cum Aethiopicae et Arabicae collatione, quibus addita est ad calcem Novi Testamenti multorum locorum historica enarratio (Paris 1554); Disquisitiones in loca aliquot Novi Testamenti iobscuriora, in Critici Sacri, VIII (London 1660), p. 211; De locis S. Scripturae hebraicis commentaria (Antwerp 1600).