Naṣr Allāh Šalaq al-ʿĀqūrī (Vittorio Scialac Accurense) e il suo ruolo politico e culturale tra Roma, Firenze e Ravenna

Vittorio Scialac Accurensis was among the first students who left his homeland in Lebanon to attempt his cultural and theological formation in the Maronite college founded by Pope Gregory XIII in 1584 in Rome. After completing his studies, he chose to remain in Italy, where he could get in touch with some influential personalities of his time, such as the Drusus prince Faær al-Dín II al-Ma‘ní and Cosimo II Medici. In this article both Scialac’s contributions to the cultural life of the beginning of 17th century Rome and his political-diplomatic activism will be analysed. Eventually, an unpublished letter addressed to Cosimo II is published in which the Maronite priest asks for the direction of the Medici printing house, which after the death of G. B. Raimondi in 1614 had fallen into a state of neglect.