Aspirations and Contradictions in Shaping a Cosmopolitan Africa: Arturo Mezzedimi in Imperial Ethiopia

The life and career of Arturo Mezzedimi are the rare tale of an immigrant who conquered the main stage of his adoptive motherland. This paper reconstructs the trajectory of a young technical surveyor who became the semi-official architect of Ethiopia’s last emperor, Haile Selassie. From his apprenti...

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Main Author: Jacopo Galli
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art 2016-12-01
Series:ABE Journal
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/abe/3159