Emanuele Ne Vunda
Antonio Emanuele Ne Vunda, also known as Antonio Manuel Nsaku Nvunda (or Vunta or Funda; died 1608), was an ambassador from the Kingdom of Kongo to the Vatican.
Career
[edit]Ne Vund was sent as ambassador by King Álvaro II in 1604.[1][2] Ne Vunda traveled through Brazil and Spain and only reached Rome on 3 January 1608, but he died two days later of illness.[3][1] He was the first African ambassador to the Holy See.
Legacy
[edit]A bust of Ne-Vunda made in colored marble can be seen at Santa Maria Maggiore, by Francesco Caporale in Rome.[4]
A painting of Ne Vunda is visible in the Sala dei Corazzieri, Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome, next to a painting depicting the 1615 embassy of Hasekura Tsunenaga from Edo Japan.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Lowe, Kate (2007). "'Representing' Africa: Ambassadors and Princes from Christian Africa to Renaissance Italy and Portugal, 1402-1608". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 17: 101–128. doi:10.1017/S0080440107000552. JSTOR 25593873.
- ^ Gray, Richard (1999). "A Kongo Princess, the Kongo Ambassadors and the Papacy". Journal of Religion in Africa. 29 (2): 140–154. doi:10.2307/1581869. ISSN 0022-4200. JSTOR 1581869.
- ^ Heywood, Linda M.; Thornton, John K. (2007-09-10). Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521770651.
- ^ University of Minnesota
Bibliography
[edit]- Teobaldo Filesi, Le relazioni tra il Regno del Congo e la Sede Apostolica nel XVI secolo, Pietro Cairoli, Como 1968.
- Luis Martínez Ferrer, Marco Nocca (ed.), “Coisas do outro mundo” A Missão em Roma de António Manuel, Príncipe de N’Funta, conhecido per “o Negrita” (1604-1608), na Roma de Paulo V, Urbaniana University Press, Città del Vaticano, 2003.
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