A medieval Muslim figure could voice a devastating satire on Christian court avarice.

Evidence

There is, too, Busone’s anticipation of Boccaccio’s more famous Jew: such was the avarice of the Roman court, said ‘Saladin’, that the Lord who suffered it to continue must be the mildest, most merciful, most just and wise, and His religion better than any other. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1111