Bertrando de Mignanelli

Bertrando de Mignanelli
Born1370
Siena, Republic of Siena
Died1455 or 1460
Occupationmerchant
NationalityRepublic of Siena
Notable worksVita Tamerlani [Life of Tamerlane] (1416)
Relativesfather Leonard de Mignanelli[1]

Bertrando de Mignanelli or Beltramo Mignanelli di Siena[2][3] (1370 – 1455[4] or 1460)[5] was an adventurous and multilingual[6] Italian merchant who lived in Damascus at the beginning of the 15th century[7] and wrote the only Latin language primary source about Tamerlane's conquest of Damascus.[8]

  1. ^ Evariste Lévi-Provençal (1959). Arabica. E. J. Brill. p. 60. Retrieved 13 September 2013. born in Siena, Italy, the son of Leonard de Mignanelli, a member of nobility
  2. ^ Felicitas Schmieder (1994). Europa und die Fremden. Thorbecke. ISBN 978-3-7995-5716-0. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  3. ^ Manuel Braun; Cornelia Herberichs (2005). Gewalt im Mittelalter: Realitäten, Imaginationen. Wilhelm Fink Verlag. p. 178. ISBN 978-3-7705-3881-2. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  4. ^ Walter Joseph Fischel (1967). Ibn Khaldūn in Egypt: His Public Functions and His Historical Research, 1382-1406; a Study in Islamic Historiography. University of California Press. p. 107. Retrieved 11 September 2013. Bertrando de Mignanelli (d. 1455)
  5. ^ "Mamluk Primary Bibliography". Library of the University of Chicago. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  6. ^ Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research. Longmans, Green. 1976. p. 210. Retrieved 13 September 2013. Beltramo Mignanelli, an adventurous and multilingual Sienese who died at the ripe age of 85 in 1455
  7. ^ Rika Gyselen; Maria Szuppe (1999). Matériaux Pour L'histoire Économique Du Monde Iranien. Association pour l'Avancement des Etudes Iraniennes. ISBN 978-2-910640-06-4. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  8. ^ Walter Joseph Fischel (1967). Ibn Khaldūn in Egypt: His Public Functions and His Historical Research, 1382-1406; a Study in Islamic Historiography. University of California Press. p. 201. Retrieved 10 September 2013. The only extensive Latin account of Tamerlane's deeds in Damascus stem from the pen of Bertrando de Mignanelli