# Giovanni Battista Raimondi

- id: raimondi
- dates: c. 1536–1614
- roles: editor

Director of the Medici Oriental Press in Rome, which cut Arabic type good enough to print the Canon in its own language in 1593, mostly for export back to the lands that wrote it.

## Crossings

- 1593: Canon of Medicine into Arabic (editor) [attested]

## Sources

- Siraisi, Nancy G. (1987). Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500.