Simone Assemani nella polemica Schiepati-Castiglioni (1818-1820) e la sua numismatica islamica
Journal: ArTS Archivio della ricerca di Trieste (University of Trieste https://www.units.it/)
Year: 2015

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