The Book of Ethiopia’, Pêro da Covilhã’s Hornbook
The Book of Ethiopia’, Pêro da Covilhã’s Hornbook spells out the history of Ethiopia through a series of 33 biographical vignettes of emblematic Ethiopian lives – with each life corresponding to one of the main 33 symbols of the Abyssinian Syllabary – or Abugida. The story begins when Yves-Marie Stranger receives an outline of Pêro da […]
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