The International Prester John Project: How A Global Legend Was Created Across Six Centuries

​​​​​​​Pope Leo X's Letter to King Manuel I of Portugal

In this letter from Pope Leo X (1513-1521) to Portuguese King Manuel I, written in the last year of the pope's life, Leo discusses "the Things done on the Red Sea, and... [the possibility of] entering into a treaty woth Prester John, the most powerful of Ethiopia' (qtd. in Brewer, p. 287).

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