Ricerc@Sapienza

Encyclopaedia biographical entry – including original research material – on Giovanni Battista Vecchietti (1552-1619), a traveller and eclectic orientalist, papal envoy to Egypt and Persia, collaborator for the Medici Press, directed by Giovanni Battista Raimondi, a follower of Bernardino Telesio’s philosophy, and a pioneer in the field of Judeo-Persian studies.