Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica
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Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica ("Cosmography and geography of Africa") is a work completed by Leo Africanus March 10, 1526.[1] At the time of publication, it was the first book by a modern African to reach print.[2] The text from this work was taken by Giovambattista Ramusio and published in the Descrittione dell’Africa in Venice in 1550.[1] The text was translated into French by Jean Temporal in 1556, into Latin by Jan Blommaerts or Joannes Florianus in the same year, and into English by John Pory in 1600.[2]
The original 928 page manuscript exists in its entirety and is held at the National Central Library of Rome, MS V.E. 953.[3] Gabriele Amadori published a first critical edition of this text in 2014.[4]
