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Leo Africanus

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Leo Africanus (c. 1494–c. 1552)

Berber traveller and geographer, born in the kingdom of Granada, southern Spain. He travelled extensively in northern and central Africa and Asia Minor (Turkey). While returning from Egypt he was captured at sea by Venetian pirates and taken to Rome, where he converted to Christianity and lived for many years. His account of his journeys was published in Italian by Ramusio as Descrittione dell'Africa (1550; published in English as A Geographical Historie of Africa in 1660).



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Both famous (Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Galileo) and lesser-known personalities (the Muslim scholar Leo Africanus, the Flemish geographer-astronomer Gemma Frisius, the English travel writer Thomas Coryate) are represented.
Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary by Renaissance Quarterly
Thus it is entirely fitting that the study begins with the analysis of Renaissance travel narratives - by Leo Africanus, Richard Hakluyt and Samuel Purchase - that served as the originary textual site of colonialism where the European discourse on race (and its close interrelation with gender) was first worked out.
Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern ... by Suzuki, Mihoko / Renaissance Quarterly
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