Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Ludovico di Varthema, also known as Barthema and Vertomannus (c. 1470 – 1517), was an Italian traveller, diarist and aristocrat known for being one of the first non-Muslim Europeans to enter Mecca as a pilgrim.

  2. Apr 12, 2024 · Lodovico de Varthema (born c. 1465–70, Bologna [Italy]—died June 1517, Rome, Papal States) was an intrepid Italian traveler and adventurer whose account of his Middle Eastern and Asiatic wanderings was widely circulated throughout Europe and earned him high fame in his own lifetime.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. Jun 11, 2015 · The Italian traveler Ludovico di Varthema (ca 1470 – 1517) began his wonderings at the end of 1502 - first visiting Egypt, continuing from there to Syria, before arriving in Mecca between April and June in 1503. He remained in Mecca where he remained for some weeks before continuing to Yemen, India, and Ceylon, finally returning to Europe in ...

  4. People also ask

  5. Jun 11, 2008 · The travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, A.D. 1503 to 1508 : Varthema, Lodovico de, 15th cent : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.

  6. Ludovico di Varthema, also known as Barthema and Vertomannus, was an Italian traveller, diarist and aristocrat known for being one of the first non-Muslim Europeans to enter Mecca as a pilgrim. Nearly everything that is known about his life comes from his own account of his travels, Itinerario de Ludouico de Varthema Bolognese, published in ...

  7. Ludovico di Varthema (ca. 1470-ca. 1517) was an Italian traveler and adventurer. Current opinion holds that he did, indeed, visit all the places in the East he claimed, including some in which he was the first European.

  8. Book: The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopa, A.D. 1503 to 1508 Online publication: 05 June 2013 Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511694639.006

  1. People also search for