Un ambasciatore di Federico II in visita alle piramidi: Berardo arcivescovo di Palermo (a. 1227)
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SUMMARY: In the year 1227 an ambassador of the Emperor Frederick II came to Egypt and visited
the pyramids of Ğīza and the ruins of Memphis. The mysterious person was also able to
read an ancient Latin inscription and translated it into Arabic in the presence of distinguished
Muslim scholars. The inscription can perhaps be identified with CIL, III/1, nº 21, later known
to 14th and 15th century Western authors, and included in Latin descriptions of Aegypt (William
of Bodensele, Ludolph of Suchem, Jean Adornes, Felix Faber). The story of Emperor Frederick’s
ambassador is not transmitted by a Western source, but by an Arabic text, the Lights
of the translunar bodies on uncovering the secrets of the pyramids of Ğamāl al-Dīn Abū Ğa‘far
al-Idrīsī (d. 649/1251). The present study examines the historical and cultural context as well
as the diplomatic preparations for the 1228-29 Crusade. For the first time the identity of the
Swabian ambassador is unravelled: he was Berardus, archbishop of Palermo (d. 1252).
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