James E. Walters, David A. Michelson and Thomas A. Carlson, (eds.), "Levi Della Vida, George" in last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/598 Levi Della Vida, Giorgio Levi Della Vida, George Italian Syriac scholar. An outstanding Semitic scholar, he devoted to Syriac literature only a lesser part of his activity, mainly at the beginning of his career (1910–21) and again later, after having been deprived of his chair at the University of Rome because of his opposiiton to fascism, when he was employed as a consultant for Oriental mss. at the Vatican Library (1931–39), under the patronage of its learned Prefetto, the future Cardinal Eugène Tisserant. http://syriaca.org/person/598 http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/SRP|person_598 http://viaf.org/viaf/14764795 http://viaf.org/viaf/210730607 http://viaf.org/viaf/200662447 http://viaf.org/viaf/90127914 1886 1967 R. Contini Levi Della Vida, Giorgio The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 248 248