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VALLE, PIETRO DELLA

pyĕˈtrō dĕlˈlä välˈlā, 1586–1652, Italian traveler in Asia. He sailed (1614) from Venice; spent a year in Constantinople, where he studied Turkish and Arabic; then traveled in Egypt, the Holy Land, Arabia, Persia, and India, returning to Italy in 1626. An account of his travels based on his letters appeared in two volumes (1650–58); a part appeared in English, with a life of Della Valle as The Travels of Pietro della Valle in India (ed. by Edward Gray, Hakluyt Society, Vol. LXXXIV and LXXXV, 1892).

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The Drawings of G.B. Castiglione & Stefano Della Bella in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle
Book by Anthony Blunt; Phaidon, 1954
Subjects:	Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto--1610?-1670?, Della Bella, Stefano--1610-1664, Windsor Castle
...assess the influence of Stefano della Bella on French art, but it must...account of the Fronde, Stefano della Bella left Paris and returned to...Sandys, writing in about 1610, and Pietro della Valle in 1616, both state that only the...

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Vol. 7
Book by Edward Gibbon, J. B. Bury; Methuen, 1900
Subjects:	Byzantine Empire--History, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
...grammarian, iv., 466 note; v., 275 and note; Latin interpreter, vii., 121 . Valle, della, Roman family of, vii., 319 . Valle, Pietro della, ii., 502 note; iv., 377 note; on ruins of Assyria, v., 408 note . Vallio, Count...

Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine
Book by John Alexander Pope; Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art, 1956
Subjects:	Porcelain, Chinese, Porcelain--Iran--Tehran--Catalogs
...i-Jahangir see Jahangir . VALLE PIETRO DELLA. Extracts from the travels of Pietro della Valle in Persia . In Pinkerton John...The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East...

Musica Franca: Essays in Honor of Frank A. D'Accone
Book by Irene Alm, Alyson McLamore, Colleen Reardon; Pendragon Press, 1996
Subjects:	Music--History And Criticism
...Fraticelli, maestro di cappella in Roma della Madonna di Loreto," che fu insegnante di viola da gamba di Pietro Della Valle; cfr. Pietro Della Valle, "Della musica delleta nostra," in Angelo Solerti, Le origini del melodramma Torino: Bocca, 1903...

Landlord and Peasant in Persia: A Study of Land Tenure and Land Revenue Administration
Book by Ann K. S. Lambton; Oxford University Press, 1953
Subjects:	Farm Tenancy (Islamic Law), Farm Tenancy--Iran, Land Tenure (Islamic Law)--Iran, Land Tenure--Law And Legislation--Iran, Landlord And Tenant (Islamic Law)--Iran, Landlord And Tenant--Iran, Real Property Tax (Islamic Law), Real Property Tax--Law And Legislation--Iran
...TYAN E., Histoire de lorganisation judiciare en pays dIslam . Paris, 1938- 43. 2 vols. VALLE PIETRO DELLA, Fameux voyages de Pietro della Valle . Paris, 1664. 4 vols. VESEY-FITZGERALD S. G., Muhammadan Law: an Abridgement according...

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Verba Vana Aut Risui Apta Non Loqui: Il Riso Nel Nome Della Rosa Di Umberto Eco
Journal article by Diego Fasolini; Italian Culture, Vol. 20, 2002
Subjects:	Eco, Umberto--Criticism and interpretation, The Name Of the Rose (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...Non Loqui: Il Riso Nel Nome Della Rosa Di Umberto Eco. by Diego...felicitar, riso fanno parte della vita umana. Invece, Jorge...gioa ed il riso da questa "valle di lacrime": il riso appartiene...appartiene alla natura stessa della fede cristiana: Christianity...

Sonja Brentjes. Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th-17th Centuries: Seeking, Transforming, Discarding Knowledge
Journal article by Muzaffar Iqbal; Islam & Science, Vol. 9, 2011
Subjects:	Books--Book reviews, Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th-17th Centuries: Seeking, Transforming, Discarding Knowledge (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...unpublished writings of Pietro della Valle (1586-1652); the...originally composed by della Valle had a much more private...annihilated, including della Valles researches into...The fourth article, "Pietro della Valles Latin Geography...

Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2007-2008
Journal article by Phyllis E. Wachter; Biography, Vol. 31, 2008
Subjects:	Biographies--Authorship, Biographies--Bibliography, Biography--Authorship, Biography--Bibliography
...century Italian travel writing focuses on works by Pietro Della Valle, Francesco Belli, and Francesco Negri. Hoelscher...Vomit Your Poison: Violence, Hunger, and Symbolism in Pietro di Donatos Christ in Concrete." 115-37. Focuses...

The Renegade in English Seventeenth-Century Imagination
Journal article by N.I. Matar; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 33, 1993
Subjects:	Converts--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Muslims--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...imposter by a Christian "Person of Great Quality" and by Pietro Cisii, a Persian convert residing in Rome. London...Dandulo (London, 1658). (29) The Travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, A Noble Roman into East-India and Arabia Deserta...

Ambrosio Bembo. the Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo
Journal article by Phillip A. Cantrell; Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, Vol. 33, 2008
Subjects:	Books--Book reviews, The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo (Autobiography)--Book reviews
...service. With military life behind him, Bembo left Venice in 1671 at the age of nineteen to follow the route of Pietro della Valle, another celebrated seventeenth-century traveler from Venice. Bembos nearly four-year journey took him from...

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Scholarly Sinan
Magazine article by Yasmin Shariff; The Architectural Review, Vol. 218, November 2005
Subjects:	Books--Book reviews, The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (Book)--Book reviews
...hemispherical domes and two towers. Even after the modifications that followed after Michelangelos death in 1564, Pietro della Valle, who visited Istanbul in 1614, remarked on the similarity of the citys royal mosques which are truly beautiful...

Makers of Instruments and Bows
Magazine article; Strings, Vol. 18, July 2003
...benbeers@hotmail.com. Corrado Belli via della Repubblica 19, Pieve DOlmi, 26040 Cremona...com. Member ISVBM. Ramon Pinto Comas. Pietro Cavalazzi via A Volta 10, 20121 Milan...William Robert Scott, Violin Maker 2865 Valle Vista, Minneapolis, MN 55427. Phone...

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Nancy's Great Escapes. as Sven Struggles to Select a Winning Team, His Girlfriend Has a Much Easier Time Picking Her Own Worldbeaters
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 4, 2006
...in inland regions such as Valle dItria, where I used to...coast, the Hotel Il San Pietro has a fantastic setting...concentrated in the quadrilatero della moda. I can go to Valentino...termedisaturnia.it). Hotel Il San Pietro di Positano,Via Laurito...

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Valle, Pietro Della
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VALLE, PIETRO DELLA pye tro del la val la, 1586 1652, Italian traveler in...1650 58); a part appeared in English, with a life of Della Valle as The Travels of Pietro della Valle in India (ed. by Edward Gray, Hakluyt Society, Vol...

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