Pietro’s pilgrimage

Date added to Library: August 10, 2023

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.