Keyword/s: HISTORY, PILGRIMAGE-JERUSALEM, PILGRIMAGE-OTHER DESTINATIONS, PILGRIMS FROM ITALY
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- Author
- Blunt, Wilfrid
- Year
- 1953
- Publisher
- James Barrie
- Published in
- London
- Accession No
- 07769
- pp
- 320
- Edition
- 1st
- location
- BKA
- Comment
Pietro Della Valle, "The Pilgrim", in 1614 left Rome via Venice for Constantinople, then Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem, witnessing the Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. He went on to Damascus, Persia and India.