Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Traveller / antiquarian

F. Suriano

b. 1450 · Italy

Franciscan friar.

Life and work

  1. August 1484
    Sailing from Jaffa to Venice, landed at the Salines of Cyprus (celebrated mass in the church of St Lazarus), passed Limassol and Cape Gata, and sailed on to Paphos, which he found ruinous apart from towers by the harbour; he also gave a short account of the island's condition

    CyprusCobham 1908, pp. 48-49

  2. 1529
    Still alive in 1529 per Cobham; his Trattato di Terra Santa was printed at Venice (Bindoni) in 1526, with a manuscript corrected by him in 1514

    Cobham 1908, pp. 48-49

Connections

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Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  2. 2.E. Papuci-Władyka (ed.) (2020). Interdisciplinary Research of the Jagiellonian University in Nea Paphos UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011-2015): First Results.
  3. 3.Francesco Suriano (1526). Trattato di Terra Santa. Venice, F. Bindoni.