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Leone Caetani (September 12, 1869 – December 25, 1935), Duke of Sermoneta (also known as Prince Caetani), was an Italian scholar, politician and historian of the Middle East. Caetani is considered a pioneer and founding father in the application of the Historical method on the sources of the early Islamic traditions which he subjected to minute historical and psychological analysis.〔From Babel to the dragomans Bernard Lewis ''Then came a second phase, when the great nineteenth-century scholars began to apply critical method, treating Muslim historians in the same way they had treated Greek, Latin, and their own historians, trying to detect biases, distortions, variant versions and so on. Here I am thinking particularly of the work of such founding fathers of our discipline as de Goeje, Wellhausen, Caetani and others. ''〕 He emigrated to Canada in 1921 with Ofelia Fabiani. They brought with them their daughter Sveva, who after an appalling childhood emerged as a highly talented painter. ==Life == Caetani was born in Rome into the prominent and wealthy Caetani Family. His father was the Prince of Teano and Duke of Sermoneta. His English mother, Ada Bootle Wilbraham came from Rode Hall, Cheshire. Caetani developed an interest in foreign languages at an early age. At 15 he began to study Sanskrit and Arabic on his own. Later he studied Oriental languages at the University of Rome, under Ignazio Guidi and Giacomo Lignana, with an intensive study of Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Sanskrit and Syriac languages (and perhaps also Turkish). Leone Caetani also served as a deputy of the Italian Parliament (1909–1913): his Radical Socialist stance later caused his expulsion from the Accademia dei Lincei by the Fascist regime (1935), as well as the loss of his Italian citizenship. He died soon afterwards in Vancouver. Caetani spent many years researching and travelling throughout the Muslim world gathering a great deal of material on a wide range of Islamic cultures from Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, the Levant, the Sahara, India, Central Asia and southern Russia. He was married to Vittoria Colonna, however he emigrated without her to Canada (Vernon, British Columbia) in 1921 with Ofelia Fabiani. They brought with them their daughter Sveva. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leone Caetani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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