PANTALEÃO DE AVEIRO. Itinerario da Terra Sancta, e Suas Particularidades [“Itinerary of the Holy Land and Its Peculiarities.”].

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Antonio Alvarez

Lisbon

1596

This travelogue of a Portuguese Franciscan’s journey to the Holy Land in the years 1562-4 contains much invaluable reportage with emphasis on the Portuguese-Jewish Diaspora. Though the optic is most certainly Christian, one may also glean information concerning the presence of Jews in the Holy Land, e. g the purchase of the city of Tiberias by Doña Gracia Nasi (alias Beatrice de Luna). Also contained is Jewish- related reportage in Corfu, Nicosia, Venice, Alexandria, Tripoli, Aleppo, Beirut and Sidon. The historian C. F. Buckingham, who analyzed the work in some depth, was convinced that the author himself was a New Christian. See Buckingham, “The Itinerário of Fr. Pantaleão de Aveiro,” Revista de Universidad de Coimbra, Vol. XXVII (1979) pp. 161-69.