Name

Mosé Castelli

Original name

Main activity

Typographer

Secondary activity

Title

Name variations

Castelli, Mosè"

Education place

Education institution

Activity place

Cairo

Activity institution

Al-Maṭbaʻa al-Kastilliyya

Activity start date

1852

Activity end date

1884

Place of birth

Florence

Date of birth

1816

Place of death

Cairo

Date of death

1884

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/Mos%C3%A8%20Castelli/search/pinto/titleCreatorYear/item-list

Descriptive card

He was born in Florence in 1816 from where, in 1832, he left for Egypt where he resided for most of his life. He founded a printing house in Cairo which produced more than 200 printed works in Arabic (typographies and lithographs, the oldest dated 1852) named al-Maṭbaʻa al-Kastilliyya; he donated copies of these to Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Italy in 1869, together with a small group of manuscripts now preserved at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. At his death his business was continued for a certain period by one of his sons, Leone, before being sold to another Italian, Luigi Vasai who around 1915 gave it to the Egyptians.

Entry author

Sara Fani