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==Vita==-->

<!--Little, if anything, is known about Rustaveli from the contemporaneous sources. His poem itself, namely the prologue, provides a clue to his identity; the poet identifies himself as "a certain Rustveli." Now, "Rustveli" is not a surname, but a territorial epithet which can be interpreted as "of/from/holder of Rustavi". The later Georgian authors of the 15th-18th centuries are more informative: they are almost unanimous in identifying him as Shota Rustaveli, a name which is preserved on a fresco and a document from the formerly Georgian [[Monastery of the Cross|Monastery of the Holy Cross]] at [[Jerusalem]]. The fresco was described by the Georgian pilgrim Timote Gabashvili in 1757/58, and rediscovered by a team of Georgian scholars in 1960. The same Jerusalem document speaks of Shota as a sponsor of the monastery and a "high treasurer," thus echoing a popular legend that Rustaveli was a minister at [[Queen Tamar]]’s court and retired to the monastery in an advanced age. Both a folk tradition and the 17th-century royal poet [[Archil of Imereti|Archil]] identify Rustaveli as a native to the southern Georgian region of [[Meskheti]], where his home village Rustavi was located (not to be confused with the modern-day city of [[Rustavi]] near [[Tbilisi]]). He is assumed to have been born in between 1160 and 1165. A legend has it that Rustaveli was educated at the medieval Georgian academies of [[Gelati]] and [[Ikalto]], and then in "[[Greece]]" (i.e., the [[Byzantine Empire]]). He must have produced his major work no earlier than the 1180s and no later than the first decade of the 13th century, most probably c. 1205-1207.-->