# Travels to Tana and Persia

Author: Barbaro, Giosofat, 1413-1494; Contarini, Ambrogio, 1429-1499; Stanley, Henry Edward John Stanley, Baron, 1827-1903 [Editor]; Roy, Eugene Armand, 1820?-1884 [Translator]; Thomas, William, -1554 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75292

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## Summary

I left Venice on the 23rd of February, 1473, accompanied by the venerable priest Stephano Testa, as my chaplain and secretary; Dimitri da Setinis, as my interpreter: and Mapheo da Bergamo and Zuanne Ungaretto, as my servants. We were, all five, dressed in thick clothes, in the German fashion. The money with which I was provided was sewn up partly in the skirts of the priest Stephano, and partly in my own, and did not fail to cause us some trouble. With these four I embarked for San Michiel da Murano, where, after hearing Mass, the Prior, at my request, signed us all with the wood of the Cross, immediately after which we left, with his blessing, for Mestre. Here five horses were provided f...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/travels-to-tana-and-persia-75292/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/travels-to-tana-and-persia-75292/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/travels-to-tana-and-persia-75292/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/travels-to-tana-and-persia-75292/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/travels-to-tana-and-persia-75292/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/travels-to-tana-and-persia-75292/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/travels-to-tana-and-persia-75292/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/travels-to-tana-and-persia-75292/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/travels-to-tana-and-persia-75292/chapters/5/index.md)