The Many Lives of Täsfa Ṣeyon: An Ethiopian Intellectual in Early Modern Rome

by Deresse Ayenachew Woldetsadik, James De Lorenzi, Matteo Salvadore

This Element examines the life and legacy of the sixteenth-century Ethiopian intellectual T sfa Ṣeyon. It reconstructs his formative years in the Horn of Africa and his diasporic life in the Holy Land and Italian peninsula, where he emerged as a prominent intermediary figure at Santo Stefano degli Abissini, an Ethiopianmonastery within the Vatican. He became a librarian, copyist, teacher, translator, author, and community leader, as well as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009595679
• ISBN13: 9781009595674
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages