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Title: | La missione umanitaria di Leone XIII presso Menelik II nel 1896, alla luce dei documenti Vaticani |
Author: | Storti, Nicola |
Year: | 1985 |
Periodical: | Africa: rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 542-576 |
Language: | Italian |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | popes prisoners of war war 1896 |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40759844 |
Abstract: | Text in Italian. This article deals with the documents in the Secret Archive of the Vatican regarding the special envoy sent by Pope Leo XIII after the battle of Adwa (1st March 1896) to King Menelik II, in an attempt to get 1700 Italian soldiers, captured by the Ethiopians, released. In an appendix, the several letters are published. A letter of Menelik II, written 23 magabit 1888 Era et. (31st March 1896) is reproduced in facsimile. - Notes. |