biography
pronunciation:
[toormayda]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1352?-after 1423)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Palma, Mallorca, Spain. He was a Franciscan friar who studied first in Lérida, and 1377–87 in Bologna. He fled one night with a nun and another friar to Tunis, and though his companions later returned to Spain, he became a Muslim, and as ‘Abdullah at-Tarjumán’ lived from 1387 in Tunis serving the Bey of Tunis as chief customs officer. As a poet, his best-known work is the Elogi dels diners, and his allegorical coplas were published in 1398 as Cobles de la divisió del regne de Mallorques. He imitated a 13th-c Italian poem in the Llibre de bons amonestaments, which was still being used as a Catalan school-text in the 19th-c. His best-known work is the prose Disputa de l'ase, written in 1417 or 1418 after a 10th-c Arabic apologia. The Disputa was first published in Barcelona in 1509, in Lyon (1548), and in Paris (1554). The autobiography he wrote in Arabic in 1420, Tuhfat al-arib fi 'r-radd ala ahl as-salib, was translated into French by J Spiro as Le présent de l'homme lettré por refuter les partisans de la croix (Paris, 1886). |
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