Reasoning with Riccoldo: John of Ragusa’s Fragmentum de Conditionibus Legum, Written at Constantinople (?) c. 1437

Riccoldo da Monte di Croce, a Dominican friar, embarked on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1288 and spent years as a missionary in Muslim Baghdad, learning Arabic and studying the Qur’an. After returning to Florence, he wrote extensively about non-Christian peoples.