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Don Fadrique Enríquez de Ribera (1476-1539), El Viaje a Jerusalén (c. 1518-1520)

Sevillan Don Fadrique Enríquez de Ribera was Marquis of Tarifa, Governor of Andalusia, Lord of Bornos, as well as proprietor of Ribera and Alcalá de los Gazules. His socio-political position among the Andalusian elite was thanks to his descent from an old Castilian line, his marriage to Beatriz and later Catalina Ribera, and his kinship…Continue reading Don Fadrique Enríquez de Ribera (1476-1539), El Viaje a Jerusalén (c. 1518-1520)

Pero Tafur (c. 1410-c. 1484), Andanças é viajes (c. 1453/54)

Pero Tafur (c. 1410 –c. 1484) was a nobleman from a Castilian family who participated in military campaigns of the Reconquista before he undertook a long journey around the Mediterrenean and across several parts of central Europe and Italy between 1436 and 1439. Although he visited Jerusalem and Palestine in the first part of his…Continue reading Pero Tafur (c. 1410-c. 1484), Andanças é viajes (c. 1453/54)

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