This is the first complete English translation of a lively
travelogue written by Andronikos aka Nikandros Noukios, a Greek
from Corfu, who accompanied a diplomatic mission from Venice to
England in the middle of the sixteenth century. He describes some
of the great northern Italian cities, gives vivid impressions of
picturesque Germany, of sober but enthusiastic Lutheran church
services, and of cities on the Rhine. In the Low Countries he
visits the commercial centres and in England gives a real sense of
the excitement of London and its sights. He rather liked the
English (even giving a recipe for beer), and is clearly fascinated
by Henry VIII, his attacks on the monasteries and his break with
Rome. He then surprisingly joins up with a troop of Greek
mercenaries, but finally leaves them and returns to Italy through
France with glimpses of Fontainebleau and Francis I. We leave
Andronikos after he has visited Rome on his way back to Venice. The
book is an almost unknown source for the sixteenth century and will
certainly be of interest to historians and students. It is also an
important and little-known landmark in the development of Modern
Greek literature, especially relevant to the burgeoning modern
interest in travel writing. It is accessible and a good read.
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