Domenico's Istanbul

Domenico was the name taken by a rabbi and doctor from Safed in Palestine on his conversion to Catholicism in 1593. For some ten years he served as Third Physician to Sultan Murad III. In 1611 he wrote or more accurately dictated his Relatione della gran Citta di Constantinopli .

Summary

Domenico was the name taken by a rabbi and doctor from Safed in Palestine on his conversion to Catholicism in 1593. For some ten years he served as Third Physician to Sultan Murad III. In 1611 he wrote or more accurately dictated his Relatione della gran Citta di Constantinopli .

Product details

• Authors: J L Austin, J. L. Austin, DOMENICO, Geoffrey Lewis
• Assisted by: Geoffrey Lewis (Editor), Michael J. L. Austin (Translation)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2001
• EAN: 9780906094365
• ISBN: 978-0-906094-36-5
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 762 g
• Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Turkish Studies; Gibb Memorial Trust Turkish Studies; Gibb Memorial Trust Turkish St; Gibb Memorial Trust
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous