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    Pedro Tafur (or Pero Tafur) (c. 1410 – c. 1484) was a traveller, historian and writer from Castile (modern day Spain). Born in Córdoba, to a branch of...
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    ("an honored and wealthy man in his village"). The travel narrative of Pero Tafur, written circa 1439 (about a pilgrimage to Dominic's tomb in Italy), states...
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    Catholic parts of Europe. Between 1435 and 1439, the Spanish traveller Pero Tafur visited Rhodes, and noted that the church was filled with relics, and...
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    Pero Tafur met Maria in November 1437 when he visited Constantinople and gave a glimpse into her daily life. During his stay at Constantinople, Tafur...
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    City: Doubleday. pp. 125. ISBN 978-0-385-26105-0. Letts, Malcolm (1926). Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures 1435-1439. George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. Dégert...
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    original on 2010-12-10. Retrieved 2007-01-23. Account of Pedro Tafur in The Travels of Pero Tafur (1435–1439), Chapter III. Lambert, Gilles (2000). Caravaggio...
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    sometimes seems as if they cover the entire ground." In 1436 the Spaniard Pero Tafur visited and left a rather fanciful account: "We went to see the Granaries...
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    Hamilton Psalter of c. 1300 (Berlin), Cormack illustration 9 Cormack:59-61 – Pero Tafur in 1437 Cormack: illustration p.60 Cormack:61 for display, 58 and illustration...
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    tra il VII e il III secolo a.C., Genova, Fratelli Frilli ed., 2007. "Pero Tafur". depts.washington.edu. "Eurostat". Circa.europa.eu. Archived from the...
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    described by Western visitors before 1453, such as the Córdoban nobleman Pero Tafur and the Florentine geographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti, the church was...
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