Ricoldo da Monte di Croce
Ric (c) oldo da Monte di Croce (Latin: Ricoldus de Monte Crucis ; * around 1243 in Florence ; † October 31, 1320 ibid) was an Orient missionary . In 1288 he traveled as a preacher via Acre , Cilicia , Erzurum and Tabriz to Baghdad , from where he returned to Florence around 1300. The Koran refutation Contra legem Sarracenorum , which was written for his trip, became very important and was translated several times, including in 1542 into German by Martin Luther under the title Laying the Alcoran . It was a writing against the Ottomans threatening the Eastern Roman Empire , which Demetrios Kydones (1324-1397) had translated from Latin into Greek around 1530 and which Bartholomäus Picenus of Monte Arduo translated back into Latin in 1506. It served as a pamphlet against Islam and as an invitation to King Ferdinand II of Aragón to crusade. The Latin title was: Confutatio Alcorani seu legis Saracenorum / ex graeco nuper in latinum traducta .
Works
- Contra legem Sarracenorum
- Libellus ad nationes orientales
- Liber Peregrinationis (later referred to as Itinerarium ; autobiography)
literature
- Klaus Peter Todt: Riccoldo da Monte Croce. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 191-194.
- Johannes Ehmann: Ricoldus de Montecrucis, Confutatio Alcorani (1300). Martin Luther, laying of the Koran (1542). Echter / Oros, Würzburg / Altenberge 1999 ( Corpus Islamo-Christianum . Series Latina 6).
- Daniel Pachurka: Ricoldus de Montecrucis, Tractatus seu disputatio contra Saracenos et Alchoranum. Edition, translation, commentary. Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-447-10711-2 ( Corpus Islamo-Christianum . Series Latina 9)
- Hans-Joachim Böttcher : The Turkish Wars in the Mirror of Saxon Biographies , Gabriele Schäfer Verlag, Herne 2019, ISBN 978-3-944487-63-2 , p. 38.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ricoldo da Monte di Croce |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Riccoldo da Monte di Croce, Ricoldus de Montecrucis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Orient missionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1243 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1320 |
| Place of death | Florence |