Umberto Rizzitano

Umberto Rizzitano
Umberto Rizzitano
	Italian Arabist and academic
Born	18 October 1913; Alexandria, Egypt
Died	6 February 1980; Palermo, Sicily

Umberto Rizzitano was an Italian academic, known for reviving Arab-Islamic studies in the University of Palermo and Sicily, neglected since the death of Michele Amari.^[1]

^ The chair of Lingua e letteratura araba ('Arabic language and literature') in Palermo had been held with alternating prestige by Salvatore Morso, Vincenzo Mortillaro, Giuseppe Caruso, Salvatore Cusa and Bartolomeo Lagumina, until the exceptional decade between 1902 and 1913 by Carlo Alfonso Nallino, followed twenty years later by Ignazio Di Matteo.

[1] The chair of Lingua e letteratura araba ('Arabic language and literature') in Palermo had been held with alternating prestige by Salvatore Morso, Vincenzo Mortillaro, Giuseppe Caruso, Salvatore Cusa and Bartolomeo Lagumina, until the exceptional decade between 1902 and 1913 by Carlo Alfonso Nallino, followed twenty years later by Ignazio Di Matteo.

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Umberto Rizzitano
Italian Arabist and academic
Born	18 October 1913 Alexandria, Egypt
Died	6 February 1980 Palermo, Sicily