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Traveller / antiquarian · Scholar

Tomasso Porcacchi

d. 1585 · Italy

Humanist scholar, editor, poet, genealogist, geographer.

Life and work

  1. 1576
    Published L'Isole piu famose del mondo (Venice; Cobham gives editions 1576, 1590, 1604, 1605, and translates from the second, of 1590). On Kouklia: 'Here are many ancient tombs, like underground chambers, in which have been found many wonderful things, as also at Baffo, Salamina and elsewhere.' Porcacchi says his accounts were corrected by mariners and travellers who told him orally.

    VeniceCobham 1908, p. 164Marangou 2000, p. 27

Sources

  1. 1.Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione (1576). L'Isole piu famose del mondo. Venice.
  2. 2.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  3. 3.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.