Moses of Bergamo

Moses of Bergamo[1] was a twelfth-century Italian poet and translator. He spent time in Constantinople, where he was one of the first Western Europeans to be interested in collecting Greek language manuscripts.[2]

He is known for his Liber Pergamensis, a description of Bergamo in Latin verse. It is the earliest surviving example of a genre: the patriotic description of a medieval commune.

Notes

1. Moïse de Bergame, Mosè de Brolo, Moses de Brolo, Moyses Pergamensis.
2. [1], [2]

References

• Charles Homer Haskins (1924), Studies in the History of Mediaeval Science, Chapter X