Educated at Fès, in Morocco, Leo Africanus traveled widely as a young man on commercial and diplomatic missions through North Africa and may also have visited the city of Timbuktu (now in Mali) as well as the valley of the Niger River. While in …

Johannes Leo Africanus (born al-Hasan Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, Arabic: الحسن محمد الوزان الفاسي; c. 1494 – c. 1554) was an Andalusi diplomat and author who is best known for his 1526 book Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica, later published by Giovanni Battista Ramusio as Descrittione dell'Africa (Description of ...

Sep 18, 2024 · Leo Africanus (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Wazzan al-Fasi al-Granati, 1485-1554) was a diplomat, merchant traveller and scholar who famously voyaged from Timbuktu to the Niger River and wrote 'The Description of Africa' (La Descrittione dell'Africa, 1526).

Jun 2, 2018 · Leo was on his way to Rome, but at some point he must have deeply impressed his captors with his erudition and knowledge of the remote places in Africa, such as the Berber regions of the Atlas mountains and Timbuktu. Of course he was literate in Arabic, but he probably by this time also knew at least the rudiments of Latin and Spanish.

Feb 21, 2025 · Born as Al Hassan Ibn Muhammad Al Wazzan in Granada around 1494, Leo Africanus was a diplomat, geographer, and scholar whose life and works bridged cultures during the Renaissance. His most famous book, Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica (Cosmography and Geography of Africa), remains a cornerstone of early modern geography.

Born al-Hassan ibn Muhammad al-Wizzaa al-Fasi, Leo Africanus was a native of Granada, Spain, and was educated in Morocco. As a young man he traveled all over North Africa and West Africa on trade and diplomatic missions with his father, visiting the Songhai Empire in 1513-1515.

Apr 26, 2012 · Portrait of a Humanist by Sebastiano del Piombo, c. 1520, assumed to be of Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad Al-Wazzan, known in the west as Leo Africanus.

The sixteenth-century Andalusi adventurer Leo Africanus was a household name amidst European geographers for almost three centuries. He was unanimously respected as the most authoritative source for the political and human geography of the Barbary Coast and Sudanic Africa, until the beginning of European exploration and expansion in the African ...

Mar 21, 2024 · Educated at Fès, in Morocco, Leo Africanus traveled widely as a young man on commercial and diplomatic missions through North Africa and may also have visited the city of Timbuktu (now in Mali) as well as the valley of the Niger River. While in Egypt (1516–17), he ascended the Nile to Aswan.

Jan 1, 2017 · Following the path of Leo Africanus to Timbuktu, a traveler encounters modern nomads. In 1550, Leo Africanus, a Muslim-born diplomat and traveler who served Pope Leo X, …