Roberto da Volterra, not knowing much languages, enlisted the help of an interpreter, a very important person in the history. He was a Armenian monaco who knew several languages: Hebrew, Arabic, French, Latin, German, Mongolian, greek, Hispanic, Portuguese. He was an expert scribe expert in medicine, philosophy, botany, astronomy.
It was a peculiar person that behaved strangely at times. Some people, especially in the ecclesiastical world, called him a heretic. The Armenian monaco followed Roberto from Egypt to Valle Benedetta who at that time was not called Valle Benedetta. Years earlier, after some ups and downs in Syria and some disputes with Pope Innocent III the Armenian monaco self-exile in a tower-stronghold near Bibbona. When Roberto contacted him, the Monaco would not follow him, but once he learned that they had to go to Egypt, he changed his mind. The Armenian monaco played with Roberto, he already knew that he would come looking for him and already knew that they would leave together.
There is a whole chapter of the tome Arabic speaking of monaco Armenian. Briefly describes the monaco very high, almost impressive, neck in the place of a cross bearing a pendant with represented a phoenix, it is said that he took during his stay in Syria. From that moment he changed his attitude even towards the Catholic Church.
The monaco helped a lot Roberto, we can say without a doubt that any decision taken by Roberto was recommended and supervised by the Armenian monaco.
Anyone who was talking to monaco did not call him a heretic, but simply the Armenian. In the not ecclesiastical world when referred to him called him the Armenian magician. Roberto called him Armenian. Of the monaco end we know very little, the only thing that is certain is that once the mission ended he retired on the shores of England and his traces were lost.
Anecdote: it is thought that it was the Armenian to recommend Roberto to take the mysterious object from the mosque.
The Armenian magician was very disdainful towards those around him. When he spoke of the pope called him "the last of the mortals." The people who he detested were called "foolish mortals". He called the people indifferent to him simply "mortals". He called the estimated people "noble mortals". So he called Roberto da Volterra.