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

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Matteo Salvadore (American University of Sharjah) James De Lorenzi (City University of New York)

The Many Lives of Täsfa Ṣeyon

An Ethiopian Intellectual in Early Modern Rome

Matteo Salvadore (American University of Sharjah), James De Lorenzi (City University of New York), Deresse Ayenachew Woldetsadik (Aix-Marseille Université)

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English

Cambridge University Press
16 January 2025

European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Orthodox & Oriental Churches

Series: Elements in the Renaissance

This Element examines the life and legacy of the sixteenth-century Ethiopian intellectual Täsfa 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 Ethiopian monastery within the Vatican. He became a librarian, copyist, teacher, translator, author, and community leader, as well as a prominent advisor to European humanist scholars and Tridentine Church authorities concerned with the emerging field of philologia sacra as it pertained to Ethiopian Orthodox (täwaḥedo) Christianity. The Element reconstructs his wide-ranging contacts with the Roman Curia and emerging orientalist academy, and then scrutinizes his editio princeps of the Ge'ez Gospels. A final section traces his modern influence, erasure, and rediscovery by later generations of European, Ethiopian, and Eritrean intellectuals.

By: Matteo Salvadore (American University of Sharjah), James De Lorenzi (City University of New York), Deresse Ayenachew Woldetsadik (Aix-Marseille Université)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009595704
ISBN 10: 1009595709
Series: Elements in the Renaissance
Pages: 110
Publication Date: 16 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. The pious stranger; 3. The mämher of Rome; 4. The influencer; 5. Rediscoveries; Glossary; Bibliography.