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Greek Eyes on Europe: The Travels of Nikandros Noukios of Corfu

Greek Eyes on Europe: The Travels of Nikandros Noukios of Corfu

Muir, John

Hardcover

Series: Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll

General European History

ISBN10: 103219121X
ISBN13: 9781032191218
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 22 2022
Pages: 194
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This is the first complete English translation of a lively travelogue written by Andronikos aka Nikandros Noukios, a Greek from Corfu, who accompanied a diplomatic mission from Venice to England in the middle of the sixteenth century. He describes some of the great northern Italian cities, gives vivid impressions of picturesque Germany, of sober but enthusiastic Lutheran church services, and of cities on the Rhine. In the Low Countries he visits the commercial centres and in England gives a real sense of the excitement of London and its sights. He rather liked the English (even giving a recipe for beer), and is clearly fascinated by Henry VIII, his attacks on the monasteries and his break with Rome. He then surprisingly joins up with a troop of Greek mercenaries, but finally leaves them and returns to Italy through France with glimpses of Fontainebleau and Francis I. We leave Andronikos after he has visited Rome on his way back to Venice.

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