«Göttinger Miszellen» 233 (2012), pp. 51-67 New documents on the life and death of Domenico Enegildo Frediani (1783-1823), traveller and poet in Egypt and the Sudan Daniele Salvoldi Domenico Enegildo Frediani (1783-1823) is that kind of forgotten travellers whose death is shrouded in the mystery of a foreign country, cursed with madness and destruction of his literary work. Even though the documentation amassed by Arturo Wolynski in 1891 1 is quite huge – a total of seventy-six pages – still much is unknown about this early Tuscan traveller. Since the publication of this first, and only, essay on his life, more documents that could shed new light on his African explorations and on his death have been uncovered. As a first instance, Wolynski was not aware of three letters published in English translation and written by Frediani to Marquess Canova on 17 December 1818 from Palmyra, 8 May 1819 from Sinai, and 1 December 1820 from Cairo 2 . A very short report on his journey to Siwa, published by the newspaper Gazzetta di Milano on 3 July 1820 was also unnoticed. Wolynski doesn’t mention either the few words dedicated to Frediani by Giovanni Battista Belzoni 3 and Henry Salt 4 in their books and also warns that he was not able to check Waddington and Hanbury’s book on their travel to Sennar 5 . After 1891 more documents about this elusive traveller appeared. In 1930 Angelo Sammarco published few pages of Linant’s travel diary to Sennar 6 , where Frediani is mentioned several times. The same diary was later more extensively published in a couple of articles by Jean Vercoutter 7 . Another version of the diary, preserved in Kingston Lacy House, 1 WOLYNSKI A., Il viaggiatore Enegildo Frediani, ricerche biografiche e geografiche con documenti inediti , in «Bollettino Società Geografica Italiana» (1891), pp. 90-125, 295-324, 397-406. Besides Wolynski’s article, Frediani earned a short mention in DAWSON W.R., BIERBRIER M.L., UPHILL E.P., Who was who in Egyptology, Egypt Exploration Society, London 1995, p. 157. 2 Letters of the Cavalier Enegildo Frediani, known among the Arabs by the name of Amiro, to the Marquis of Ischia, in «The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts» 10 (1821), pp. 364-378. 3 BELZONI G.B., Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, London 1820, pp. 267, 270-71, 274. 4 HALLS J.J., The Life and Correspondence of Henry Salt Esq. FRS, Richard Bentley, vol. II, London 1834, p. 205. 5 WADDINGTON G., HANBURY B., Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia, John Murray, London 1822. 6 Sammarco published the French version of the diary, housed now in the Bibliothèque Centrale des Musées Nationaux, Paris Ms. 264; SAMMARCO A., Alessandro Ricci e il suo giornale dei viaggi. Vol. II. Documenti inediti o rari , Société Royale de Géographie d’Égypte, Il Cairo 1930, pp. 17-32. 7 VERCOUTTER J., Journal d’un voyage en Basse Nubie de Linant de Bellefonds , in BSFE 37-38 (1963), pp. 39-64; VERCOUTTER J., Journal d’un voyage en Basse Nubie de Linant de Bellefonds (suite) , in BSFE 41 (1964), pp. 23-32.