Also known as:
Italian: Fra Niccolò da Poggibonsi, Nicola da Poggibonsi
NICCOLÒ OF POGGIBONSI. - Franciscan traveler of the 14th century, of whom only what he himself says in his Libro d'Oltremare is known, written in Italy from notes taken during four years of travels in the East.
Having left Florence in March 1346, he embarked at Venice on April 6 of the same year. Amid various difficulties he reached and visited the Holy Land, Syria, and Chaldea, as far as Baghdad, then passing on into Egypt. In 264 chapters he describes, in Italian vernacular, his journey and the monuments and places visited. The work was published in full, after partial editions, by Alberto Bacchi, Libro d'Oltremare di fra N. da P. (Bologna 1881), in 2 vols.
Bibliography3 worksin addition to the cited ed., cf. A. Franco, Cenni su N. de P., in Esercitaz. sulla letterat. relig. in Italia nei secc. XIII e XIV, by G. M
BIBL.: in addition to the cited ed., cf. A. Franco, Cenni su N. de P., in Esercitaz. sulla letterat. relig. in Italia nei secc. XIII e XIV, by G. Mazzoni, Florence 1905, pp. 298-300 (study on the manuscripts); Sbaralea, III, p. 731; G. Golubovich, Bibl. bibli. della Terra Santa e dell'Oriente francese., V. Quaracchi 1927, pp. 1-27.
Ghinato, Alberto. “Niccolò da Poggibonsi.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, coll. 1826–1827. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/niccolo-da-poggibonsi.
MLA
Ghinato, Alberto. “Niccolò da Poggibonsi.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, coll. 1826–1827. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/niccolo-da-poggibonsi.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec8_niccolo_da_poggibonsi,
author = {Ghinato, Alberto},
title = {Niccolò da Poggibonsi},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {1826--1827},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/niccolo-da-poggibonsi}
}
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