Saint Patricks Purgatory a Mediaeval Pilgrimage in Ireland
Saint Patricks Purgatory a Mediaeval Pilgrimage in Ireland
John D Seymour
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" So our pilgrim was one of the numerous merchants and traders though apparently not too prosperous a one who nocked into the country from the city on the Arno. Florentines were to be found in Ireland possibly as early as 1217, while a note by Salvestro Mannini shews that several families were settled here, no doubt for business reasons, in 1413. Nor had such any reason- able excuse for being ignorant of St. Patrick's Purgatory ; apart altogether from the fact that there was a literary connecti...on between that spot and Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries it is well known that the Italian merchants employed maps of Ireland, called portolans, to aid them in their travels, and on many of these the cartographers had marked in the purgatory more or less accurately. 3 So Antonio's story fits perfectly into the known commercial conditions of Ireland in the fifteenth century. We may now permit him to give the account of his experiences. " /, Salvestro di Giovanni Mannini, have here written of the pilgrimage to the Purgatory of St.
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