@article{Bausi_Chiesa_2019, title={The Ystoria Ethyopie in the Cronica Universalis of Galvaneus de la Flamma (d. c.1345)}, volume={22}, url={https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/article/view/1491}, DOI={10.15460/aethiopica.22.0.1491}, abstractNote={<p>The section named <em>Ystoria Ethyopie</em> in the Cronica universalis written by Galvaneus de la Flamma (d. <em>c</em>.1345) depends, according to the writer’s statements, on a Tractatus de mappa whose author is easily identifiable as Giovanni da Carignano (d. <em>c</em>.1330), who drew a famous planisphere of the Mediterranean area. The <em>Tractatus de mappa</em>, as quoted by Galvaneus, reports surprising pieces of news about the Ethiopia of the time and in particular on an event which has been known so far only by a later and generally disregarded source, namely the <em>Supplementum cronicarum</em> of Giacomo Filippo Foresti (first edition 1483): the supposed embassy sent by an <em>imperator Ethiopie</em> to Western Europe at the time of Pope Clement V, that would be the first diplomatic contact between these two areas in the Middle Ages.<br>The Latin text of the <em>Ystoria Ethyopie</em> is edited with an annotated English translation that intends to provide a detailed critical assessment of the document. If no conclusivem evidence in favour of the existence of the embassy emerges and the depiction of Ethiopia in the <em>Ystoria Ethyopie</em> appears to be in several passages influenced by contemporary ideas and expectations, there is no doubt that reliable information on early-fourteenthcentury Ethiopia was directly or indirectly conveyed to Giovanni da Carignano, as we can read it resumed in Galvaneus’s <em>Cronica universalis</em>.</p>}, journal={Aethiopica}, author={Bausi, Alessandro and Chiesa, Paolo}, year={2019}, month={Jul.}, pages={7–57} }