Domenico's Istanbul

by Geoffrey Lewis and J.L. Austin

Domenico was the name taken by a rabbi and doctor from Safed in Palestine on his conversion to catholicism in Italy in 1593. Previously, for some ten years, he had served as third physician to the Ottoman sultan Murad III (1574-95). In 1611 Domenico wrote or, more probably, dictated his Relatione della gran Citta di Constantinopli. This is not just a topographical description of the city, but also an account of its inhabitants and the regulations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0906094364
• ISBN13: 9780906094365
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.5"