Tag: Ethiopia

It may well be said that precisely the sec. XIV and XV marked the highest flower of the Ethiopian letters. Strange to note: among the many works passed from Arabic or written in Ethiopian there is an operetta – The Acts of San Sebastiano – translated from Italian. In the century XV, or much more…

Quite remarkable literary development had the ancient Ethiopian language (ge ‛ ez), which still remains almost exclusively in liturgical usage, as among us the Latin; and until yesterday it was practically the only written language, like Latin among us in the Middle Ages, thereby preventing other languages ​​from rising from the state of simple vulgar….