Marco Marini
Appearance
Marco Marini (Brescia 1542 - 1594) was an Italian orientalist, and censor of Hebrew language publications for the Vatican. He prepared the first published edition of Targum Yerushalmi.[1]
Works
- ms61 - a translation into Hebrew of the Gospels of Matthew and Mark from the convent of the Canons Regular of San Salvatore at Candiana, where Marini was a canon in 1568.
- The first edition of Targum Yerushalmi
- a Hebrew grammar entitled Gan Eden ('The Garden of Eden')
References
- ^ Carmignac 1978 "One of the canons in 1568 was that excellent Hebraist Marco Marini,62 who was born at Brescia in 1542 and died 1594"