barthema

Updated: May 6, 2025

Milan, 1511. fol. This work is supposed to have been written originally in Italian. In the Spanish translation, published in Lisbon, 1576, the author's name is given, Barthema. This a very curious and rare work. It has been translated into German and Dutch. Baumgarten, Peregrinatio in Egyptum, Arabiam, Palestinam, et Syriam. Nuremberg, 1621. 4to. Voyages au Levant, 1749-52. Par Fréd. Hasselquist.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 : Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and : Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth : Century, By William Stevenson

"Seetzen," says M. Vivien de Saint Martin, "was the first traveller since Ludovico Barthema who visited Mecca, and before his time no European had even seen the holy city of Medina, consecrated by the tomb of the Prophet." From these remarks we gather how invaluable the trustworthy narrative of this disinterested and well-informed traveller would have been.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century