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Al-Hasan al-Wazzan - delivered in Granada to lady family that in 1492 went to Morocco - became famous as the fantastic Renaissance copy writer Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be publicized in Europe (in 1550). He previously been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the Pope; when he was released and baptized, he lived a European life of scholarship or grant as the Christian copy writer Giovanni Leone; by 1527, chances are that he delivered to North Africa also to the terms, culture, and beliefs in which he had been lifted. Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso review of the fragmentary, partial, and frequently contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his amazing life and work.
