Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo
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european history
european travel
exploration
firsthand observations
foreign lands
geography
historians
historical account
illustrated
iran
iraq
italian explorers
middle east
near east
nonfiction
personal journal
remote places
retrospective
syria
travelogue
turkey
venice
western asia
western india
world travel
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- ISBN 9780520249394
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Sep 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In 1671, Ambrosio Bembo, a young nobleman bored with everyday life in Venice, decided to broaden his knowledge of the world through travel. That August he set off on a remarkable, occasionally hazardous, four-year voyage to Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and the Portuguese colonies of western India. His journal, now translated into English for the first time, is the most important new European travel account of western Asia to be published in the past hundred years. It opens an extraordinary perspective on the Near East and India at a time when few Europeans traveled to these lands. Keenly observed and engagingly written, Bembo's vivid account is filled with a high sense of adventure and curiosity and provides intriguing descriptions of people, landscapes, food, fashion, architecture, customs, cities, commerce, and more. Presented here with the original illustrations and with a rich introduction and annotations, this lively and important historical document is at last available to scholars, students, and armchair travelers alike.
Anthony Welch is Professor in the Department of History in Art at the University of Victoria. He is author of Shah 'Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, Arts of the Islamic Book (with S.C. Welch), Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, and Artists for the Shah: Late Sixteenth Century Painting at the Imperial Court of Iran, among other books. Clara Bargellini is Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has written widely on the art of colonial Mexico, and most recently has contributed to The Arts of Latin America, 1492-1820.
