Zaga Christ (Zaga Christ) - the son of the emperor of Ethiopia, Jacob . Born around 1610, died in France on April 22, 1638 (poisoned). He fled from his native country to the Middle East, then moved to Europe, where he was preparing to return to Ethiopia and a coup d'etat. The life of Zagi Krist and the circumstances of his death formed the basis of a number of novels.
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The story of his letters in blood to his beloved, the Italian nun Katarina, has no analogues in the world.
This is the only person from the African continent who was born in the so-called "pre-colonial era", whose personal papers, library and authentic portrait have survived to this day. Thousands of archival documents in twelve languages narrate his adventures; they were discovered, analyzed and compared by the French researcher Serge Arol .
Zaga Christ is the only contemporary of Cardinal Richelieu , whose portrait (Italy, 1635) is placed in the Richelieu Dictionary (Paris, Honoré Champion, 2015) [1] .
Notes
- ↑ Françoise HILDESHEIMER et Dénes HARAI (dir.), Dictionnaire Richelieu, Paris, Champion, mai 2015, 400 p. ISBN 9782745328663 .
Sources
- Serge Aroles, "Zaga Christ", in Dictionnaire Richelieu, dir. F. Hildesheimer, D. Harai, éd. Honoré Champion, 2015 ( ISBN 9782745328663 ).
- Serge Aroles, Bulletin de la Société historique de Rueil-Malmaison, no 35, décembre 2013, p. 55-70