TAGLIABUE, Camillo. Milano 1838 — Milano 16.10.1905 (when 67). Italian Missionary and Urdu Scholar. Worked as missionary in Hyderabad, Deccan, in 1864-78. From 1879 to his death Professor of Hindustani at I.U.O.N. in Naples, in 1892-97 also professore incaricato of English. His grammar is based on that of Platts.

Publications: “Breve saggio di proverbi indostani”, Atti della R. Accad. di Archeologia, lettere e belle arti 13:2, 1889, 1-31; “Le Coste dell’ India”, L’Oriente 2, 1895, 21-27; a few further articles in L’Oriente.

– Grammatica della lingua Indostana o Urdù. 258 p. Collezione scolastica del R. Ist. Or. in Napoli 1. Turin – Rome – Florence 1892; Manuale e glossario della lingua indostana o urdù. 288 p. Ibid. 2. Rome 1898; Proverbi, detti e leggende indostani pubblicati, tradotti e illustrati. 254 p. Ibid. 4. Rome 1899.

Sources: Gli studi orientali in Italia 1861–1911; U. Nardella, “Foulques and Tagliabue: l’insegnamento dell’indostano a Napoli”, Sorrentino & Taddei, Naples and India. N. 1990, 317-350 (see further La conoscenza dell’ Asia 3, 1989, 41-54).