Viaggio di Lionardo di Niccolò Frescobaldi in Egitto e in Terra Santa
Con un discorso dell' editore sopra il commercio degl' Italiani nel secolo XIV

An account, published in 1818, of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land by the Florentine Leonardo Frescobaldi (fl. 1384–1405).

Leonardo Frescobaldi (Author), Guglielmo Manzi (Edited by)

9781108042239, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 February 2012

220 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.29 kg

The Florentine nobleman Leonardo Frescobaldi (fl. 1384–1405) travelled with two compatriots, and at the urging of the king of Naples, to the Holy Land in 1384–5, and he wrote this account on his return. It was published in 1818 by the librarian of the Barberini Library in Rome, Guglielmo Manzi (1784–1821), who prefixed to his edition an essay (also in Italian) on the activities of Italian merchants abroad in the fourteenth century. Frescobaldi and his companions went first to Venice, whence they sailed to Alexandria in Egypt, in order to visit St Catharine's monastery on the way to Jerusalem. Frescobaldi describes the churches and holy places in great detail, and then describes their route home, via Damascus and Beirut, thence by ship (and after enduring a terrible storm) to Venice. Frescobaldi's lively curiosity about everything he saw makes this account of his pilgrimage a fascinating read.

Discorso sopra il commercio degli Italiani nel secolo xiv
Viaggio di Lionardo di Niccolò Frescobaldi Fiorentino in Egitto e in Terra Santa.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]