Index viatorum extra Europam saec. XIII-XVIII

Ludovico de Varthema

Dates of travel: 1503-1508
Areas visited: Egypt, Syria, Mekka, India, esp. Malabar Coast;
probably fictitious: Persia, Ceylon, Bengal, Tenasserim, Malacca, Java, Moluccas
Birth / Death: ca. 1470 / 1517
City of Origin / Profession: Bologna / military
Report/Manuscript:
Report/Publication:Italian: Itinerario de Ludouico de Varthema Bolognes nello Egitto, nella Soria nella Arabia deserta et felice, nella Persia, nella India, et nela Ethyopia. Le sede el viuere, et costumi delle prefate Provincie ..., Rome 1510.
Latin: Ludouici Patritii Romani Nouum itinerarium Aethiopiae, Aegipti, vtriusque Arabiae, Persidis, Siriae, ac Indiae, intra et extra Gangem ..., Milan 1511.
Modern reprint: Ludovico Varthema, Itinerario dallo Egypto alla India, ed. Enrico Musacchio, Bologna 1991.
Translation: German: Die Ritterlich und lobwirdig rayß des gestrengen und über all ander weyt erfarnen ritters und Lantfarers herren Ludowico vartomans von Bolonia Sagent von den landen Egypto Syria von bayden Arabia Persia Jndia und Ethiopia von den gestalten syten und dero menschen leben und gelauben, Augsburg 1515
Modern English: The travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia deserta and Arabia felix ... a.D. 1503 to 1508, transl., ed. John Winter Jones, George Percy Badger, London 1863
Modern German: Ludovico de Varthema, Reisen im Orient, uebers./komm. Folker Reichert (Fremde Kulturen in alten Berichten, 2), Sigmaringen 1996
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Nomina viatorum

Anselme Adorno | Antonio de Abreu | Afonso de Albuquerque | Francesco de Almeida | Diogo de Azambuja | ...
Duarte Barbosa | Jean de Bethencourt | Wilhelm von Boldensele | Bernhard von Breydenbach | ...
Giovanni Caboto | Pedro Álvares Cabral | Pêro Vaz de Caminha | Diogo Cao | Jacques Cartier | Niccolo dei Conti | Pero da Covilha | ...
Alvise ca'Da Mosto | Bartolomeu Dias | Dinis Dias | ...
Gil Eanes | Goncalo Eanes | Pedro de Evora | ...
Felix Fabri | Jacme Ferer | Martin Frobisher | ...
Vasco da Gama | Geoffrey of Langley | Humphrey Gilbert | Giovanni de Gallofonte | Buscarel de Giuzulfis (Ghizolfi) | Antão Gonçalves | Ruy González de Clavijo | Konrad Grünemberg | ...
Arnold van Harff | ...
Jourdain de Sévérac | ...
Gadifer de La Salle | Ludolph von Sudheim | ...
Giovanni de Marignolli | Fernao Mendes Pinto | Jean Mocquet | Johannes de Montecorvino | ...
Carsten Niebuhr | Afanassij Nikitin | João da Nova | ...
Oderico de Pordonone | ...
Afonso da Paiva | Jean and Raoul Parmentier | Binot Paulmier (de Gonneville) | Bartolomeu Perestrelo | Giovanni da Pian del Carpine | Antonio Pigafetta | Tome Pires | Heinrich Plütscho | Marco Polo | ...
Pedro Fernandez de Quiros | ...
Rodrigo Rabelo | Nicoloso da Recco | Pero Reinel | ...
Johann Jacob Saar | Hans Schiltberger | Willem Schouten | Francesco Serrão | Balthasar Sprenger | Hans Staden | ...
Pero Tafur | Tristão Vaz Teixeira | Luis Vaez de Torres | Nuno Tristão | Hans Tucher | ...
Antoniotto Usodimare | ...
Ludovico de Varthema | Giovanni da Verrazzano | Ugolino and Vadino Vivaldi | ...
João Gonçales Zarco | Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg | ...

Nomina collectorum

Fracanzano de Montalboddo | ...