The Second Book of the Travels of Nicander Nucius, of Corcyra. Edited from the original Greek MS. In the Bodleian Library, with an English translation, by the Rev. J. A. Cramer…

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Νούκιος, Νίκανδρος ή Ανδρόνικος (Author), Cramer, John Anthony (Translator)

Title

The Second Book of the Travels of Nicander Nucius, of Corcyra. Edited from the original Greek MS. In the Bodleian Library, with an English translation, by the Rev. J. A. Cramer…

Date

1841

Bibliographic Citation

Νούκιος, Νίκανδρος ή Ανδρόνικος (fl. 1537-1556), The Second Book of the Travels of Nicander Nucius, of Corcyra. Edited from the original Greek MS. In the Bodleian Library, with an English translation, by the Rev. J. A. Cramer… London: Printed for the Camden Society, by John Bowyer Nichols, M.DCCC.XLI. (1841)

Description

xxvii+126+[1]p., 23cm.

Identifier

GT114 - N69s A - 00Φ338 c. 1

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Publisher

Camden Society

Printer

John Bowyer Nichols

Translator

Cramer, John Anthony

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Νούκιος, Νίκανδρος ή Ανδρόνικος

General Remarks

Volume 17 of the Camden Society Old Series. The text is based on the Oxford manuscript, which is imcomplete. The MS has been transcribed by Isaac Fidler, who also executed the translation under the editor's supervision. Greek text, with English translation and notes.

Remarks person

Nicander Nucius was born in Corfu but emigrated to Venice in 1537. He worked as an editor for the press of Damiano di Santa Maria and was the first translator of 150 of Aesop's tales into Modern Greek.

Remarks book

References: Layton, p. 421-23; Contominas 511; Weber II: 150

Remarks content

In c. 1545 Nicander Nucius set out from Venice and travelled to Constantinople in the retinue of Gerhard Veltwyck von Ravenstein, Flemish Envoy of Charles V. The story of this journey can be found in Hugo Favoli's "Hodoeporici Byzantini" (Louvain, 1563). Later the same year, the two men travelled extensively through Western Europe on various diplomatic missions. Nucius left behind a narrative of his travels, in three manuscript books, entitled "Apodemiai". The work described here is an English translation of the second book of the "Apodemiai", which treats the voyage to London and the British Isles. The "Apodemiai" are considered one of the most important travel accounts written by a Greek and recounting a voyage through Renaissance Europe.

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Αγγλία--16ος αι., Σκωτία--16ος αι., Μεγάλη Βρετανία--16ος αι., Λονδίνο--16ος αι.

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Νούκιος, Νίκανδρος ή Ανδρόνικος (Author), Cramer, John Anthony (Translator), “The Second Book of the Travels of Nicander Nucius, of Corcyra. Edited from the original Greek MS. In the Bodleian Library, with an English translation, by the Rev. J. A. Cramer… ,” travelogues, accessed December 25, 2024, https://english.travelogues.gr/items/show/40808.