Dopo i gesuiti: missioni religiose e studi linguistici nell’Etiopia dei secoli XVII-XVIII

In the 17th-18th centuries, at the end of eighty years marked by the presence of the Portuguese Jesuits in the country (1632), the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia seemed to close itself off from international relations. In reality, the interest for Abyssinia never waned in Europe and missionary journeys are documented, which also led to the first documentation of Ethiopian languages, notably Amharic, thus enabling a significant expansion of linguistic knowledge