Lambasciaria di David re dell' Etiopia al santissimo S. N. Clemente. 1535

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[LEGATIO DAVID]. LAMBASCIARIA di David Re dell’ Etiopia al Santissimo S. N. Clemente Papa VII. insieme con la obbedienza Al prefato Sãtissimo S. N. resa; L’ Ambasciaria del medesmo David Re dell’ Etiopia ad Emanuel Re de Portugallo; Appresso, un’ altra Ambasciaria del medesmo David Re dell’ Etiopia à Gioanne Re de Portugallo; Alcune cose del Regno d’ Etiopia, & del Populo, & de lor costumi. In Bologna: per Giacobo keymolen Alostese, 1533, Março.

A-C4, D3; [15] ff.; 215 mm.

FIRST EDITION in Italian of one of the most important texts related to the famous ‘Prester John’. Published just a few months after the Embassy of King David to Ethiopia on 29 January 1533, it contains four letters, two to the Pope and two to the Kings of Portugal, D. Manuel and D. João III, from the Ethiopian Sovereign and one from D. João III, written in Setúbal in 1532. It is expressly stated that the letters from the King of Ethiopia were translated into Latin by Paulo Gióvio. According to Leite de Faria, it is not possible to know the author of these texts.

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