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WORKS ISSUED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY

THE TRAVEL JOURNAL OF ANTONIO DE BEATIS

SECOND SERIES NO. 150

ISSUED FOR 1976

HAKLUYT SOCIETY

COUNCIL AND OFFICERS, 1977-78

• president
• Dr E. S. DE BEER, C.B.E., F.B.A.

VICE-PRESIDENTS

• Professor C. F. BECKINGHAM
• Sir ALAN BURNS, G.C.M.G.

• Professor C. R. BOXER, F.B.A.
• G. R. CRONE

• Sir GILBERT LAITHWAITE, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I.

COUNCIL (with date of election)

• Professor J. W. BLAKE, C.B.E. (1972)
• Dr R. C. BRIDGES (1976)
• Professor J. S. CUMMINS (1973)
• STEPHEN EASTON (1975)
• BASIL GREENHILL, C.M.G. (1977)
• P. H. HULTON (1974)
• M.J. MOYNIHAN (1976)
• Sir EDWARD MUIR, K.C.B. (1974)
• PAUL Putz (1977)
• Royal Commonwealth Society (D. H. SIMPSON, 1973)
• Royal Geographical Society (Mrs DOROTHY MIDDLETON)
• Dr GEOFFREY SCAMMELL (1974)
• Dr SUSAN SKILLITER (1975)
• PETER Stockham (1973)
• Dr J. W STOYE (1975)
• Dr HELEN WALLIS (1977)
• Professor GLYNDWR WILLIAMS (1976)

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• Sir ALAN BURNS, G.C.M.G.
• Sir PHILIP HAY, K.C.V.O., T.D.
• Sir GILBERT LAITHWAITE, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I.
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• HONORARY TREASURER
• J. F. MAGGS

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THE TRAVEL JOURNAL OF ANTONIO DE BEATIS

GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, THE LOW COUNTRIES, FRANCE AND ITALY, 1517-1518

Translated from the Italian by J. R. HALE and J. M. A. LINDON

Edited by J. R. HALE

Published for the Hakluyt Society by

Routledge2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

and by Routledge711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

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1979 The Hakluyt Society

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

ISBN: 9780904180077(hbk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781315552040

CONTENTS

1. THE JOURNAL

1. THE JOURNAL

1. viii
2. 130a
3. 130b
4. 140a
5. 140b

Guide

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Family tree: the Neapolitan House of Aragon
2. Plate 1. Francois de Paule (N. 1, f. 75V)
3. Plate 2. The Holy Shroud (N. 2, p. 173)
4. Map: the route taken by the Cardinal of Aragon

PREFACE

In the spring of 1517 Luigi of Aragon, a bastard but one of the most wealthy, cultivated and well connected of Italian cardinals, left Rome for a long northern tour. His itinerary was affected by his desire to make himself known to the great rulers of his age, the Emperor Maximilian, the young King of Spain, Charles V, Francis I, Henry VIII, to make contact with the exiled members of his family, the Neapolitan branch of the royal house of Aragon, and to visit the tombs of those who had died abroad. But it was also, largely in its route and almost wholly in its mood, a pleasure trip.

For this it was well timed: during a lull in the international tensions that repeatedly discharged themselves in the Wars of Italy, and on the eve of Reformation bitterness. And the Cardinal, too grand to keep a record of his own movements, was well served by his chaplain and amanuensis, Antonio de Beads, who day by day kept a steadily enthusiastic record of the scenes they passed among.

For an unsophi ticated man almost untouched by the impress of Humanism, the range of de Beatis's interests was quite remarkably wide. His descriptions of landscapes, towns, of whole regions and the characters and customs of their inhabitants, of churches, palaces, relics and works of art provide one of the clearest impressions we have of the quality of life in north-western Europe in the Renaissance.

This range owes something, of course, to the company he kept. Without the Cardinal he would not have had the organs played in the churches they visited, would not have watched Raphael's tapestries being woven in Brussels or met Leonardo da Vinci at Amboise. But it owes still more to traditions which by 1517 suggested not only what a curious traveller should look at but the way in which he might organize his impressions and express them in writing. For this reason I have devoted most of the Introduction to explaining how the writing of such a travel record as de Beatis's had become possible.

The journal was first published, in a critical edition based on three manuscripts, by the great German church historian Ludwig Pastor in 1905. the work has neither been reprinted nor translated into another language until now.

Op. cit in bibl. It had been previously described by L. Volpicella in Archivio Storico per le Provincie Napoletane (1876) 106-17.

September. It was reprinted by the author, Teodor de Wyzewa, in his Excetittiques et aventuriers (Paris, 1910) 45 70.

Op. cit. in bibl.

E.g. Sir Ernst Gombrich, "The earliest description of Bosch's Garden of Delight', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (1967) 403-6. Reprinted in The heritage of Apelles (London, 1976).

The present translation is made from Pastor's text. This was based on a manuscript in his own possession (now apparently of unknown whereabouts), collated with one equally full manuscript and another with numerous small omissions, both in the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III in Naples; respectively MS. x.F.28 and xiv.E.35. The former (N. I) is illustrated in Plate I, the latter (N. 2) in Plate 2.

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