TRAVELERS OF THE RENAISSANCE

Pilgrimages

Middle Ages Renaissance

“The further you go, the more you shall see and the more you shall know”

Refined as an educational journey

Travel Reports

Middle Ages: Secular (geography, trade) Religious Entertain

Renaissance Historia genre Sciencia genre

The Journal’s of Montaigne’s Travels in Italy 1580-1581

Example of travel diary Main objective Writing style Focuses Human achievement Italian countryside

Travel Diaries

“Buying Stories: Ancient Tales, Renaissance Travelers, and the Market for the Marvelous” Authentication Cultural arbiter

Plausibility Consistencies Little reason to doubt

Travel Guides

Advisory writings Compendia

Collection of travel reports Cosmographies Statistical works

Travel Methodologists

Juan Luis Vives Theodor Zwinger Hieronymus Turler Hilarius Pyrkmair Hugo Blotius

Three Cities Important to Methodizing Travel Venice Basel Paris

Ars Apodemica

Definition of travel Subdivision of the conception thus gained Consideration of the arguments for and against

travel Medical advice Religious advice Practical advice (behavior) Short descriptions of principal nations of Europe Hints for the use of travel devices Instructions for the direction of the attention of

the traveler Descriptive schemata

Sources

Primary Montaigne, Michel. The Journal of Montaigne's Travels

in Italy by Way of Switzerland and Germany. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1903.

Secondary Johnson, Christine R. "Buying Stories: Ancient Tales,

Renaissance Travelers, and the Market for the Marvelous." Journal of Early Modern History 11.6 (2007): 4

Stagl, Justin. "The Methodizing of Travel in the Sixteenth Century: A Tale of Three Cities."A History of Curiosity: The Theory of Travel 1550-1800. Ed. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995. 47-95.