The Many Lives of Täsfa Ṣeyon
An Ethiopian Intellectual in Early Modern Rome
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This Element examines the life and legacy of the sixteenth century Ethiopian intellectual Täsfa S?eyon. It reconstructs his formative years, scrutinizes his editio princeps of the Ge'ez Gospels, and traces his modern influence, erasure, and rediscovery by later generations of Western orientalists, Ethiopian writers, and Catholic thinkers.