{"id":554,"date":"2021-02-20T14:54:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T14:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dlf.uzh.ch\/sites\/camposanto\/?p=554"},"modified":"2021-06-10T19:17:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T19:17:06","slug":"pero-tafur-c-1410-c-1484-andancas-e-viajes-c-1453-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlf.uzh.ch\/sites\/camposanto\/pero-tafur-c-1410-c-1484-andancas-e-viajes-c-1453-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Pero Tafur (c. 1410-c. 1484), Andan\u00e7as \u00e9 viajes<\/em> (c. 1453\/54)"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\"\"Pero Tafur (c. 1410 \u2013c. 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 trip, his principal interest was more as an adventurer and \u00a0religious themes played no particular role. Tafur composed the written account of his journey only several yeas later, in 1453\/54. While he visited Pisa on the way to Rome, at the very beginning of his trip, the lengthy description of the city that we reproduce here is included in the very last chapters of the book, when Tafur was en route to Spain. His account of Pisa\u2019s history is very characteristic for the entire book, as it relies exclusively on heresay and is full of phantastic and historically impossible claims. The central aim of this highly ficticious narrative is to give an explanation for Pisa\u2019s decline, from a powerful sea republic to a satellite of Florence. In this framework, Pisa\u2019s decision to sell Jerusalem is seen as the principle reason for its ultimate defeat. Therefore, the Camposanto plays a prominent role here, as a \u201ccontainer\u201d of the holy earth. \/ DG<\/em><\/p>\n

Ms_1985_excerpt<\/a> Source: <\/strong>Manuscript copy, eighteenth century, Salamanca, Biblioteca Universitaria de Salamanca, Ms. 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n

Edition: <\/strong>Pero Tafur, Andan\u00e7as \u00e9 viajes de Pero Tafur por diversas partes del mundo avidos (1435-1439)<\/em>, ed. Marcos Jim\u00e9nez de la Espada, Colecci\u00f3n de libros espa\u00f1oles raros \u00f3 curiosos, 8 (Madrid: Miguel Ginesta, 1874), 294-295.<\/span><\/p>\n

Translation<\/strong>: Pero Tafur, Travels and Adventures 1435-1439<\/em>, transl. Malcolm Letts (London: Routledge, 1926), 228-229.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]”Esta \u00e7ibdat de Pisa dizen que se\u00f1ore\u00f3 antiguamente la isla de \u00c7e\u00e7ilia, \u00e9 \u00c7erde\u00f1a, \u00e9 C\u00f3r\u00e7ega \u00e9 otras, \u00e9 en la tierra firme grandes provin\u00e7ias; \u00e9 dizen que porque una vez pas\u00f3 una nao que levava un cardenal \u00e9 \u00e7iertos perlados de embaxada del Papa al rey de Fran\u00e7ia, \u00e9 porque non fezieron \u00e7ierta salva acostumbrada, armaron lu\u00e9go \u00e9 pelearon con la nao, \u00e9 dizen que la quemaon \u00e9 el Papa, de que lo supo, indignado contra ellos, mand\u00f3les fazer guerra, \u00e9 di\u00f3 cruzada sobrellos, \u00e9 fizi\u00e9ronlos muy grant dap\u00f1o. Mas, \u00e1 ruego de algunos reyes \u00e9 prin\u00e7pes, ovo el Papa de mitigar su furia, con condi\u00e7ion que para que ellos fuesen asueltos, que ganasen la Casa Santa de Ierusalem. \u00c9 ellos disposieron \u00e9 fizieron una grant flota, \u00e9 pasaron Ultramar \u00e9 ganaron \u00e1 Ierusalem con su terretorio, \u00e9 la poseyeron \u00e7ierto tiempo, \u00e9 al fin, d\u00edzese, que porque les costaba mucho tenella, que la vendieron, donde se cree que les ha venido quanto mal tienen, que es dubda si en toda Pisa ay un natural della; \u00e9 los sobrados les fezieron abaxar, \u00e9 \u00e1un dizen, que, por desonrra, la barreta les fazen traer al rev\u00e9s, \u00e9 son vituperio de la gente \u00e9 sojudgados de aquellos que eran sus siervos. En aquella vez que ganaron \u00e1 Ierusalem, dizen que ansimesmo fueron vene\u00e7ianos \u00e9 ginoveses, \u00e9 quando ganaron \u00e1 Ierusalem, al partir de aquel tesoro que all\u00ed ovieron, fizieron tres partes: en la una pusieron el Santo Grial, que es de una esmeralda, en la otra posieron dos colupnas, en las quales dizen que se veye cada uno el mal que le tractavan \u00e9 lo que quer\u00ede \u00e9l, en la otra pusieron todo el tesoro; \u00e9 dizen que echaron suertes \u00e9 cupo el Santo Vaso \u00e1 G\u00e9nova, do agora est\u00e1, el qual yo v\u00ed, \u00e9 las colupnas con Ierusalem \u00e1 los pissanos, la quales truxeron \u00e1 Pisa, \u00e9 el tesoro \u00e1 Veneja, \u00e9 desto dizen que es toda su riqueza; \u00e9 las colupnas que vinieron \u00e1 Pisa, despues que vendieron \u00e1 Ierusalem, perdieron su virtud. \u00c9 est\u00e1 aqu\u00ed una yglesia muy notable, \u00e9 una claustra quel suelo della es de la tierra de aquel Campo Santo que fu\u00e9 comprado por los treynta dineros, que es en Ierusalem, \u00e9 ains\u00ed le llaman aqu\u00ed en Pisa el Campo Santo, \u00e9 dizen que persona que entierren all\u00ed non tura m\u00e1s de treynta dias, que la tierra lo gasta; sin dubda, grant fecho era esta \u00e7ibdad antiguamente.”[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\u201cThis city of Pisa, they say, owned at one time the islands of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica, with vast provinces on the mainland. But once a ship passed which carried a cardinal and certain prelates, ambassadors from the Pope to the King of France, without giving the accustomed salute. Thereupon the Pisans flew to the arms, and captured and burnt the ship, and the Pope, when he heard of it, was so incensed that he ordered war to be declared and proclaimed a crusade against them, and did them great damage. But on the entreaty of certain kings and princes, the Pope made an end of his wrath, on condition that the culprits should be absolved if they set out and captured the Holy City. Then the Pisans prepared a great fleet and passed over the seas, and took Jerusalem with its dependencies, and remained there some time, but finally they found it was too costly to retain the city and they sold it, from which act all their evils are believed to have come. It is to be doubted if there is now a single natural-born Pisan in the city. They had also to pull down their buildings, and, further, as a mark of dishonour, to wear their helmets reversed. Thus they are disdained by all men and are subjugated to those who were their servants.
\nIt is said that when they captured Jerusalem, the Venetians and Genoese were also there, and after the city was taken they divided the treasure which they found into three parts. In one they placed the Holy Grail, which is made of a single emerald, in the second they placed two columns, in which each one can foresee the evils which are to befall him and whatever he desires, and in the third they placed the treasure. They then threw lots, and the Holy Grail fell to Genoa, where it now is, as I myself have seen, the columns, with the city of Jerusalem, came to the Pisans, which columns they brought to Pisa, and Venice took the treasure which is the foundation of all its wealth, but the columns which were brought to Pisa lost their virtue when Jerusalem was sold.
\nThere is a very notable church and a cloister, the soil of which is from the holy field (Campo Santo) at Jerusalem, which was purchased with the thirty coins, and therefore they call it here in Pisa the Campo Santo. And they say that bodies interred here do not endure more than thirty days, as the earth consumes them. Without doubt, Pisa was formerly a great place.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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