Emmanuel Piloti

Emmanuel Piloti (* around 1371 in Crete ) was a Venetian merchant in the Levant .

He became known for his treatise on his travels and stays in the eastern Mediterranean, including the Holy Land and Egypt , which was only discovered in the 19th century and contains detailed descriptions of the regions and cities he visited. It was probably written between 1420 and 1440, after Piloti returned to Western Europe, and has only survived in a French translation that may have been made by the author himself. The treatise is a valuable source for the history of the Levant at the beginning of the 15th century.

source

• Traité d'Emmanuel Piloti sur le Passage en Terre Sainte (1420) (Publications de l'Université Lovanium de Léopoldville, 4), ed. v. Pierre-Herman Dopp, Louvain / Paris 1958.

literature

• Pierre-Herman Dopp: L'Égypte au commencement du quinzième siècle d'après le Traité d'Emmanuel Piloti de Crète (Incipit 1420), avec une introduction et des notes . Cairo 1950.
• Norman Housley: "Emmanuele Piloti and crusading in the Latin East", in: The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe: Festschrift for Anthony Luttrell , ed. v. Karl Borchardt / Nikolas Jaspert / Helen J. Nicholson, Aldershot 2007, pp. 139–150.