Born al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan in Granada and raised in Fez, Johannes Leo Africanus was a sixteenth-century diplomat and scholar who, in the court of Pope Leo X, produced the first guide to the geography and culture of North Africa, The Cosmography and Geography of Africa.
Antony Ossa-Richardson is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at University College London. His most recent book is A History of Ambiguity (Princeton, 2019).
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