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Sto caricando le informazioni... Leo Africanus (originale 1986; edizione 1998)di Amin Maalouf (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Ӕ En una época de crisis en la que dos grandes imperios pugnan por la supremacía en el Mediterráneo, Hasan, nacido en Granada poco antes de 1492 y más conocido como León el Africano, emprende una extraordinaria peregrinación que, guiada por su pasión de vivir, lo llevará a la mistiosa ciudad de Tombuctú, a los quince reinos negros situados entre el Níger y el Nilo, y a la deslumbrante Constantinopla. Finalmente, sus conocimientos y experiencias, donde se funden la cultura oriental y la occidental, el mundo cristiano y el del islam, serán puestos al servicio del papa León X y de Julio de Médicis Fictional memoirs of the 16th century travel writer Hasan al-Wazzan al-Gharnati al-Fassi aka Leo Africanus de Medici born in the last years before the fall of Granada in 1492, who grew up in the Maghreb and travelled backwards and forwards across the Sahara to Timbuktu, who lived in Egypt under the Mamelukes before it was conquered by the Ottomans, and who was captured by pirates and sold into slavery before becoming a diplomat and adviser serving Popes Leo X and Clement VII. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Overview: "I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road; my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages." Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan, who was born in Granada in 1488. His family fled the Inquisition and took him to the city of Fez, in North Africa. Hasan became an itinerant merchant, and made many journeys to the East, journeys rich in adventure and observation. He was captured by a Sicilian pirate and taken back to Rome as a gift to Pope Leo X, who baptized him Johannes Leo. While in Rome, he wrote the first trilingual dictionary (Latin, Arabic and Hebrew), as well as his celebrated Description of Africa, for which he is still remembered as Leo Africanus. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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