Bertrando de Mignanelli | |
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Born | 1370 Siena, Republic of Siena |
Died | 1455 or 1460 |
Occupation | merchant |
Nationality | Republic of Siena |
Notable works | Vita Tamerlani [Life of Tamerlane] (1416) |
Relatives | father Leonard de Mignanelli [1] |
Bertrando de Mignanelli or Beltramo Mignanelli di Siena [2] [3] (1370 – 1455 [4] or 1460) [5] was an adventurous and multilingual [6] Italian merchant who lived in Damascus at the beginning of the 15th century [7] and wrote the only Latin language primary source about Tamerlane's conquest of Damascus. [8]
Bertrando's father Leonard de Mignanelli was a member of the nobility of Siena. [1] At a very young age Mignanelli left Siena and traveled extensively around the Middle East before settling in Damascus and starting his successful trading business. [9]
In some sources he is mentioned as a Catholic priest. [10] Although he was a committed Christian his work does not contain much religious bias. [11]
He personally knew Sultan Barquq and spoke Arabic. [12] After he returned to Italy in 1416 he wrote a biography of Barquq and valuable testimony of Timur's capture of the Mamluk region of Syria in 1400—1401. He wrote his works based on what he had heard about the conquest because he fled to Jerusalem during the siege of Damascus and spent the winter of 1400/1401 there. [13] [7] After he heard that Damascus had been destroyed, he joined the retreating Mamluk Egyptian army commanded by Faraj ibn Barquq and went to Cairo and Alexandria with a servant. [13]
In his works he also mentions the Battle of Kosovo because he makes a parallel between the conduct of Stefan Lazarević during the Battle of Angora and his father Prince Lazar of Serbia during the Battle of Kosovo. [14] Like many other early Western sources, Mignanelli believed that the Christian Serbian army was victorious. [15] In his 1416 work Mignanelli asserted that the Ottoman sultan Murad I was killed by Prince Lazar himself. [14]
Mignanelli died in 1460. [8]
born in Siena, Italy, the son of Leonard de Mignanelli, a member of nobility
Bertrando de Mignanelli (d. 1455)
Beltramo Mignanelli, an adventurous and multilingual Sienese who died at the ripe age of 85 in 1455
The only extensive Latin account of Tamerlane's deeds in Damascus stem from the pen of Bertrando de Mignanelli
... who, as a young man, came to Damascus and engaged in commercial activities...
If the above mentioned sources are famous enough, but the work of the Italian Catholic priest Bertrando de Mignanelli «Vitae Tamer- lani» (Life of Tamerlan) proved to be quite unknown to our scholars.
Although it was composed by a devout Christian, there was remarkably little religious bias.
When Tamerlane, during his second campaign in Syria, laid siege to Damascus in I400, de Mignanelli was in Jerusalem spending the winter there (I400-1401). There he heard of the destruction of Damascus by Tamerlane and joining the...
Бројни западни хроничари и ина западна сведочанства говоре о победи Хришћана (Мезијер, Мињанели, писмо фирентинске...)
Bertrando de Mignanelli | |
---|---|
Born | 1370 Siena, Republic of Siena |
Died | 1455 or 1460 |
Occupation | merchant |
Nationality | Republic of Siena |
Notable works | Vita Tamerlani [Life of Tamerlane] (1416) |
Relatives | father Leonard de Mignanelli [1] |
Bertrando de Mignanelli or Beltramo Mignanelli di Siena [2] [3] (1370 – 1455 [4] or 1460) [5] was an adventurous and multilingual [6] Italian merchant who lived in Damascus at the beginning of the 15th century [7] and wrote the only Latin language primary source about Tamerlane's conquest of Damascus. [8]
Bertrando's father Leonard de Mignanelli was a member of the nobility of Siena. [1] At a very young age Mignanelli left Siena and traveled extensively around the Middle East before settling in Damascus and starting his successful trading business. [9]
In some sources he is mentioned as a Catholic priest. [10] Although he was a committed Christian his work does not contain much religious bias. [11]
He personally knew Sultan Barquq and spoke Arabic. [12] After he returned to Italy in 1416 he wrote a biography of Barquq and valuable testimony of Timur's capture of the Mamluk region of Syria in 1400—1401. He wrote his works based on what he had heard about the conquest because he fled to Jerusalem during the siege of Damascus and spent the winter of 1400/1401 there. [13] [7] After he heard that Damascus had been destroyed, he joined the retreating Mamluk Egyptian army commanded by Faraj ibn Barquq and went to Cairo and Alexandria with a servant. [13]
In his works he also mentions the Battle of Kosovo because he makes a parallel between the conduct of Stefan Lazarević during the Battle of Angora and his father Prince Lazar of Serbia during the Battle of Kosovo. [14] Like many other early Western sources, Mignanelli believed that the Christian Serbian army was victorious. [15] In his 1416 work Mignanelli asserted that the Ottoman sultan Murad I was killed by Prince Lazar himself. [14]
Mignanelli died in 1460. [8]
born in Siena, Italy, the son of Leonard de Mignanelli, a member of nobility
Bertrando de Mignanelli (d. 1455)
Beltramo Mignanelli, an adventurous and multilingual Sienese who died at the ripe age of 85 in 1455
The only extensive Latin account of Tamerlane's deeds in Damascus stem from the pen of Bertrando de Mignanelli
... who, as a young man, came to Damascus and engaged in commercial activities...
If the above mentioned sources are famous enough, but the work of the Italian Catholic priest Bertrando de Mignanelli «Vitae Tamer- lani» (Life of Tamerlan) proved to be quite unknown to our scholars.
Although it was composed by a devout Christian, there was remarkably little religious bias.
When Tamerlane, during his second campaign in Syria, laid siege to Damascus in I400, de Mignanelli was in Jerusalem spending the winter there (I400-1401). There he heard of the destruction of Damascus by Tamerlane and joining the...
Бројни западни хроничари и ина западна сведочанства говоре о победи Хришћана (Мезијер, Мињанели, писмо фирентинске...)