Calimani, Simone

Calimani, Simone a Venetian rabbi of the 18th century, is the author of Grammatica Ebraica, with an appendix on Hebrew poetry (Venice, 1751; Puisa, 1815). It was translated into Hebrew by Eichenbaum (Wilna, 1848). See De Rossi, Dizionario Storico (Germ. transl.), p. 65 sq.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. i, 139; Steincichneider, Bibliogr. Handbuch, p. 31, and Catalogus Lib'ror-um Hebr., in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, p. 2595. (B. P.)