GUIDI, IGNAZIO and MICHELANGELO. - Italian Semitic scholar, the former, born in Rome on 31 July 1844 (his father Michele was the last financial intendant of the Papal States), died there on 18 Apr. 1935, one of the greatest orientalists of the past generation. Professor of Hebrew and comparative Semitic languages at the University of Rome from 1876 to 1919, lecturer there in the history and languages of Abyssinia from 1885 to 1919; senator of the Kingdom from 1914; member of a great many Italian and foreign academies.
A typical representative of the renewal of Oriental studies in the 19th century, based on a rigorous philological method and meticulous documentary research, besides a few fundamental writings of a general character (Della sede primitiva dei popoli semitici, 1878; L'historiographie chez les Sémites, 1906) and on linguistics (including grammars of Amharic, Coptic, and South Arabian), and brief but acute essays in biblical exegesis (Note ebraiche, 1927, a reworking of earlier writings), he made with-
