| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
435 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-411) and index. |
| Contents |
Note on transliteration and dates -- Introduction : crossings -- 1. Living in the land of Islam -- 2. Living in the land of war -- 3. Writing in Italy -- 4. Between Africa and Europe -- 5. Conceiving Africa -- 6. Between Islam and Christianity -- 7. Curiosity and connections -- 8. Translation, transmission, and distance -- 9. The return -- Epilogue : Affinities -- Notes -- Glossary of Arabic words -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
| Summary |
Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco--became famous as the great Renaissance writer Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope; when he was released and baptized, he lived a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone; by 1527, it is likely that he returned to North Africa and to the language, culture, and faith in which he had been raised. Historian Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a fresh interpretation of his extraordinary life and work.--From publisher description.--From publisher description. |
| Subject |
Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550.
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Africanists -- Europe -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0809094347 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780809094349 hardcover alkaline paper |
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