Title: The late travels Of S. Giacomo Baratti, An Italian Gentleman, Into the remote Countries of the Abissins, or of Ethiopia Interior [...] Together with a Confirmation of this Relation drawn from the Writings of Damianus de Goes, and Jo. Scaliger, who agree w
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> The late travels Of S. Giacomo Baratti, An Italian Gentleman, Into the remote Countries of the Abissins, or of Ethiopia Interior. Wherein you shall find an exact account of the Laws, Government, Religion, Discipline, Customs, &amp;c. of the Christian people that do Inhabit there, with many Observations which some may improve to the advantage and increase of Trade with them. Together with a Confirmation of this Relation drawn from the Writings of Damianus de Goes, and Jo. Scaliger, who agree with the Author in many particulars. Translated by G.D.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 12mo. ff. [2] (blank), [3], pp. 238 (i.e. 230), [2], ff. [2] (blank) (Errors in pagination). Signatures: A⁴ B-P⁸ Q⁴. Tooled calf. Filets on boards, corner ornaments, central ornamental frame, gilded spine with red panel. Manuscript notes on title page. Ruled border around title page. Headpieces. Booklabel of Humphrey Winterton.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">An account of travels to Abyssinia, supposedly written by an Italian, Giacomo Baratti, who himself, despite his inclusion in the ongoing ‘Dizionario biografico degli Italiani,’ based entirely on his imaginary travelogue, is imaginary too. See A. Freeman, “Hoax and Forgery, Whimsy and Fraud: Taxonomic Reflections on the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W. Stephens &amp; E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, p. 23. Bent Juel-Jensen also suggests that there never was an Italian version and that the work is likely an English literary forgery, for which no ‘original version’ is known: see B. Juel-Jensen, “Baratti, Giacomo Late travels into Ethiopia 1670 – a literary forgery” in: Th¬e Book Collector, 30 (1981), 4, p. 549. See D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2nd ed.), B677 (only edition); ESTC R11736; not in R. J. Howgego, Encyclopedia of exploration: invented and apocryphal narratives of travel. Potts Point, New South Wales, 2013.
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