Thomas Coryat (also Coryate) (c. 1577 – 1617) was an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. He is principally remembered...
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Coryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Moneth's Travels is a travelogue published in 1611 by Thomas Coryat (sometimes also spelled "Coryate" or...
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rather than the three of Viollet-le-Duc. The English travel writer Thomas Coryat saw it at about the same time and described it as "the fairest gallows...
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northern Europe was slower. Its use was first described in English by Thomas Coryat in a volume of writings on his Italian travels (1611), but for many...
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his ship runs aground near Surat. 1612–1617: Thomas Coryat travels by foot to India. 1615–1618: Thomas Roe is ambassador to the court at Agra, India...
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precedence above all the noble Libraries I saw in my travels. — Thomas Coryat, Coryat's Crudities In 1680, the Senate accepted the recommendation of the...
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she was held in high regard by her son Akbar, as English traveler Thomas Coryat recorded, Akbar carrying her palanquin himself across the river, during...
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among them Ben Jonson, John Donne, John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont, Thomas Coryat, John Selden, Robert Bruce Cotton, Richard Carew, Richard Martin, and...
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musical activity survives in the travel memoirs of the English writer Thomas Coryat. Much of his music was written specifically for that location, although...
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Italy in the 16th century, and was described for his English readers by Thomas Coryat in the 1590s as "not used in any other country that I saw in my travels"...
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Women's County league. There are also 2 Lawn Bowls clubs in the town. Thomas Coryat a traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age...
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rediscovered. One was noticed in the 16th century by the English traveller Thomas Coryat in the ruins of Old Delhi. Initially he assumed that from the way it...
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the basis of the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia; and Thomas Coryat. The latter, the author of "Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels...
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by Englishmen and others (4 vols.), (1625). Thomas Coryat, (c. 1577–1617), English traveller Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels...
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are held at these four sites in rotation, to commemorate the event. Thomas Coryat, an English traveller, who visited the city in the reign of Emperor...
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John Davies, poet Thomas James, librarian Thomas Coryat, travel writer, court jester to James I Henry Marten, Judge of Admiralty Thomas Ryves, lawyer Richard...
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death, his ashes are also said to have been immersed at Brahma Kund. Thomas Coryat, an English traveller, who visited the city in the reign of Emperor...
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(1609), John Taylor, the Water Poet (title-page to his poems, 1630), Thomas Coryat, and many others. He also engraved the frontispiece to John Harington's...
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distinguished visitors. An English visitor to Venice, Thomas Coryat, left this description of his singing (Coryats Crudities, London, 1611): "Of the singers there...
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literary nonsense under the pseudonym Glareanus Vadianus, a mocker of Thomas Coryat. Son of Richard Sandford, of Chard, Somerset, he was born there about...
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other valuable items twice every year. English visitors such as Thomas Coryat and Thomas Roe mention that the custom was followed by his son Jahangir as...
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die door Kolombus.. Leiden, 1705 Van der Aa, Pieter – Reys togt door Thomas Coryat van Jerusalem; Leiden, 1705 Van der Aa, Pieter – De zee en land-reysen...
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attested in the writings of Benzo d'Alessandria, Giovanni Simonetta, Thomas Coryat, Bernardino Corio and Andrea Alciato. In the 17th century Gabriele Verri...
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significant damage to the goods stored there. The English world traveler Thomas Coryat visited the Frankfurt Fair in 1608. He wrote: "In the Buchgasse I saw...
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1868–1952), novelist William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), poet and educator Thomas Coryat or Coryate (c. 1577–1617), travel writer and poet Louisa Stuart Costello...
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in three accounts in Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations... Thomas Coryat (c. 1577 – 1617), an English traveler. His travels to Turkey, Persia...
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precedents set by Thomas Howard when he travelled to Italy in 1613. The travelogue Coryat's Crudities (1611), published by Thomas Coryat was also an early...
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(1868–1952, England, f) William Johnson Cory (1823–1892, England, p) Thomas Coryat (c. 1577–1617, England, nf) George Coșbuc (1866–1918, Romania, p/nf)...
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Barnabe Rich, English soldier and story-teller (born c. 1540) December – Thomas Coryat, English travel writer (born c. 1577) Unknown dates Giovanni Botero...
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His verses contain allusions to Thomas Coryat, Bankes's Horse, and many other topics of contemporary interest. Thomas Seccombe wrote: "His epigrams contain...
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