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DAPPER, Olfert. Naukeurige Beschryving Van Morea, Eertijts Peloponnesus; En de Eilanden, Gelegen onder de kusten van Morea, en binnen en buiten de Golf van Venetien..., Amsterdam, Wolfgangh, Waesbergen, Boom, Someren en Goethals, 1688.
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Olfert Dapper (1636-1689) was a Flemish doctor and erudite, in particular an excellent scholar of Classic Greek and Latin literature. He was born in…
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ROSACCIO, Giuseppe. Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli : per mare, e per terra & insieme quello di Terra Santa..., Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598.]
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Giuseppe Rosaccio (1530-1620) was an Italian physician and geographer, born in Friuli, Veneto. He became known for a series of works which popularized…
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[PALMER, Roger, Earl of Castlemaine]. Das von den Türcken auffs äusserst bedrangte, Aber: Durch die Christliche Waffen der heroischen Republic Venedig auffs tapfferst beschützte Candia..., Frankfurt, Wilhelm Serlin, 1669.
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Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine (1634-1705) was a British nobleman, politician and diplomat. He was born to a Catholic family, studied at Cambridge…
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«BUONDELMONTI, Cristoforo, Liber Insularum Archipelagi [1420]» in Τόπος και Εικόνα, χαρακτικά ξένων περιηγητών για την Ελλάδα..., vol. I, Olkos, 1978.
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Cristoforo Buondelmonti (c. 1385-c. 1430), was a Florentine monk and geographer. Born to an aristocratic family, he frequented the circles of humanist…
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LEGRAND, ÉMILE. Description des Iles de l'Archipel par Christophe Buondelmonti version grecque par un anonyme publiée d'après le manuscrit du Sérail... Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1897.
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This study on Buondelmonti's work was written by Émile Legrand in the 19th century. Legrand published an anonymous 16th century manuscript, which was…
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LEAR, Edward. Journals of a Landscape painter in Albania etc., London, Richard Bentley, 1851.
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Edward Lear (1812-1888) was a prolific landscape painter as well as as a prominent satirical writer. Lear was the last of twenty one children. Due to…
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FRIEDEL, Adam de. The Greeks, Twenty-four Portraits of the principal Leaders and Personages who have made themselves most conspicuous in the Greek Revolution, from the Commencement of the Struggle, London, Adam de Friedel, 1830.
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The Danish Adam Friedel (1780- ?) served as military official during the Napoleonic wars. After the wars, he accompanied a Danish nobleman on his…
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BYRON, George Gordon, Lord. The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. With notes, and a memoir of the author, London, George Henry and Co., [1849].
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Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was a British Romantic poet. Byron was an aristocrat with a restless character, tormented by existential…
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BUSBEQUII, Avgerii Gislenii. D. Legationis Turc. Epistolae IV. eiusdem De Re Militari contra Turcam consilium, & Solimanni Turc. Ipm. legatio ad Ferd. I. Imp. Rom. In quibus Mores, et res à Turcis..., Munich, MDCXX [=1620].
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Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522-1592) was a Flemish humanist, naturalist and diplomat. He studied Latin at the University of Leuven and continued his…
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COUSINÉRY, Esprit Marie. Voyage dans la Macédoine, contenant des recherches sur l'histoire, la géographie et les antiquités de ce pays..., vols I-II, Paris, Imprimerie royale, MDCCCXXXI [=1831].
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Esprit Marie Cousinery (1747-1833) was a French scholar and diplomat from Marseilles. He studied numismatics, was a friend of Abbé Barthélemy and…
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