"[A] fascinating tale of a man forced . . . to live between
incompatible worlds. Highly recommended." --"Library Journal"
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. Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso
study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces
that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb
interpretation of his extraordinary life and work.
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