The book reconstructs the story of George Robinson, an English Quaker, who went to Jerusalem in 1657 “to preach to the Turks and Papists.” The friars of Jerusalem, not knowing how to get rid of him, staged a hoax: disguised a servant of the convent as an Islamic religious authority, a cadi, who ordered George Robinson’s repatriation. Villani publishes an Italian translation of the report that Robinson himself, unaware of the deception, wrote on his return to England (published in 1663) and the transcription of an extraordinary handwritten document in which his story is narrated by one the friars of Jerusalem who staged the faked trial of the Quaker in front of the cadi. Villani found this report in the Archives of Propaganda Fide. The crisp prose of this document, which had never been studied before, presents the reader with a story more akin to fiction than to reality.
Il calzolaio quacchero e il finto cadì, Palermo, , 2001
VILLANI, STEFANO
2001-01-01
Abstract
The book reconstructs the story of George Robinson, an English Quaker, who went to Jerusalem in 1657 “to preach to the Turks and Papists.” The friars of Jerusalem, not knowing how to get rid of him, staged a hoax: disguised a servant of the convent as an Islamic religious authority, a cadi, who ordered George Robinson’s repatriation. Villani publishes an Italian translation of the report that Robinson himself, unaware of the deception, wrote on his return to England (published in 1663) and the transcription of an extraordinary handwritten document in which his story is narrated by one the friars of Jerusalem who staged the faked trial of the Quaker in front of the cadi. Villani found this report in the Archives of Propaganda Fide. The crisp prose of this document, which had never been studied before, presents the reader with a story more akin to fiction than to reality.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
