Marco Marini

Marco Marini (Brescia 1542–1594) was an Italian orientalist, and censor of Hebrew language publications for the Vatican. He prepared the first published edition of Targum Yerushalmi.[1]

Works

• ms61 – a translation into Hebrew of the Gospels of Matthew and Mark from the convent of the Canons Regular of San Salvatore at Candiana, where Marini was a canon in 1568.
• The first edition of Targum Yerushalmi
• a Hebrew grammar entitled Gan Eden ('The Garden of Eden')

References

1. Carmignac 1978 "One of the canons in 1568 was that excellent Hebraist Marco Marini,62 who was born at Brescia in 1542 and died 1594"