Moses of Bergamo
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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.
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- Charles Homer Haskins (1924), Studies in the History of Mediaeval Science, Chapter X
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