Simone Assemani nella polemica Schiepati-Castiglioni (1818-1820)
Journal: OpenstarTs (Univeristy of Trieste https://www.units.it/)
Year: 2016

This paper aims at shedding light on Simone Assemani’s approach to Islamic&#13;\nnumismatics, and therefore we examine a group of letters (2 by Assemani and&#13;\n2 by Gaetano Cattaneo written in 1811 &amp; 5 by Assemani and 10 by Stefano de&#13;\nMajnoni written between 1818 and 1820 after the publication of Assemani’s&#13;\npamphlet entitled Spiegazione di due rarissime medaglie cufiche della famiglia degli Ommiadi appartenenti al Museo Majnoni in Milano, Milan 1818).&#13;\nAfter this publicat