Machine summary:
PERSON ALIA CARLO ALFONSO NALLINO N July 25th died unexpectedly the foremost Arabic scholar which Italy has produced in the person of Professor Nallino, He was born in Turin on the 16th of February 1872.
After com• pleting his studies at the University of his native city he went to Cairo from 1893 to 1894, and was sent, on his return to Italy, by the Royal Observatory of Brera on a mission to the famous library of the Escorial to investigate mathema• tical and astronomical Arabic manu• scripts, of which some of the most imp• ortant are preserved in that library.
From the same year till 1902 he was teacher of Arabic at the Oriental Insti• tute at Naples.
The following years till 1909 he was lecturer of Arabic literature at the University of Rome.
From 1909 till 1912 he taught (in Arabic) at the University of Cairo Arabic astronomy and literature, while from 1927 till 1931 he was again invited by the Egyptian University to give lectures (also in the Arabic language) on pre-Islamic history.
Out• standing is his edition, with Latin trans• lation, of the astronomy of al-Battani; his last great work was a new edition of the History of the Muslims in Sicily, of which the last portion, the second half of the third volume, has so far not been published.
His untime• ly death is a great loss to Arabic studies -and not only in Italy, for the Acade• mies of Damascus and Cairo have lost one of their foremost members.
(
, 
, 
)
