{{Short description|Italian Orientalist (1752–1821)}} '''Simone Assemani''' (February 19, 1752 – April 7, 1821), grand-nephew of Giuseppe Simone Assemani, was born in Rome. thumb|''Globus caelestis Cufico-Arabicus Veliterni musei Borgiani'', 1790
He was professor of Oriental languages in Padua. He is best known by his masterly detection of the literary imposture of Giuseppe Vella, a Maltese priest, which claimed to be a history of the Saracens in Syria.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Assemani|display=Assemani s.v. 4. Simon|volume=2|page=779}}</ref>
==Major works==
===Numismatics=== *''Museo Cufico Naniano / illustrato dall' Abate Simone Assemani''. Padua 1787–88. Microfilm-Edition Urbana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois 1998. *''Sopra le Monete Arabe effigiate''. Padua 1809. *''Spiegazione di due rarissime medaglie cufiche della famiglia degli Ommiadi appartenenti al Museo Majnoni in Milano''. Milan, 1818.
===Orientalism=== *''Saggio sull'origine culto letteratura e costumi degli Arabi avanti Maometto''. Padua 1787. * {{Cite book|title=Globus caelestis Cufico-Arabicus Veliterni musei Borgiani|volume=|publisher=Tipografia del Seminario <Padova>|location=Padova|year=1750|language=la|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=3888614}} *''Catalogo De'Codici Manoscritti Orientali Della Bibliotheca Naniana'' / Compilato Dall' Abate Simone Assemani Professore Di Lingue Oriental. Padua 1792.
==References== {{reflist}} * {{cite encyclopedia |last=della Vida |first=Giorgio Levi |date=1962 |chapter=ASSEMANI, Simone |title=Dizionario biografico degli Italiani |volume=4 |chapter-url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/simone-assemani_(Dizionario-Biografico)/}}
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