Liber de liberatione civitatum orientis

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The Liber de liberatione civitatum orientis ("Book About the Liberation of the Cities of the East") is a historical work by Caffaro di Caschifellone. Caffaro, a Genoese crusader, soldier, and statesman, wrote this book to describe Genoese participation in the First Crusade. He began keeping a record of Genoese history around 1101, and though he wrote the Liber de liberatione civitatum orientis from memory over fifty years later, it serves as an important source for understanding the history of the First Crusade and 12th-century Genoa.1

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…in addition to the annals: Liber de liberatione civitatum orientis (“Book About the Liberation of the Cities of the East”), describing Genoese participation in the First Crusade, written from memory more than half a century later; and Historia captionis Almariae et Tortuose (“History of the Capture of Almería and Tortosa”),…
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…in addition to the annals: Liber de liberatione civitatum orientis (“Book About the Liberation of the Cities of the East”), describing Genoese participation in the First Crusade, written from memory more than half a century later; and Historia captionis Almariae et Tortuose (“History of the Capture of Almería and Tortosa”),…
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