Description: Feasting on History is a wide-ranging intellectual history of the Italian-Ethiopian relationship, told through the intertwined lives of Heruy Wäldä Sellasé, an Ethiopian writer and civil servant, and Enrico Cerulli, an Italian Orientalist and colonial official.
Review Quotes: This brilliant book is at once an intellectual history of Italian Orientalism in Ethiopian studies and a critical biography of Enrico Cerulli. It contains stunning revelations of his fascist connections and his odious role in the suppression of the Patriotic Movement. A must-read.--Shiferaw Bekele, professor emeritus of modern Ethiopian history, Addis Ababa University