Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica
aka Della descrittione dellāAfrica et delle cose notabili che ivi sono [A Description of Africa and of Noteworthy Thing Found There]; A Geographical History of Africa
Cosmography and Geography of Africa
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geographyCosmographia et geographia de Affrica is a work completed by Leo Africanus March 10, 1526. At the time of publication, it was the first book by a modern African to reach print. The text from this work was taken by Giovambattista Ramusio and published in the Descrittione dellāAfrica in Venice in 1550. The text was translated into French by Jean Temporal in 1556, into Latin by Jan Blommaerts or Joannes Florianus in the same year, and into English by John Pory in 1600.ā Wikipedia
Originally written in Renaissance Latin, it was first published in Italian.