Ricerc@Sapienza

Biography, and analysis of his works, of the Carmelite Leandro di Santa Cecilia (Giovanni Augusto Cottalorda), missionary in different countries of the Muslim Orient from 1732 to 1751. Leandro described his stay in the Levant in his three books: Palestina (Rome, 1753), Persia (Rome, 1757), and Mesopotamia (Rome, 1757), which have been analyzed especially in order to understand Leandro's attitude towards the culture and the material life of countries of mission, and the information he gives concerning the Islamic religion.