James of Verona

Augustinian friar and pilgrim

"Giacomo da Verona" redirects here. Not to be confused with Jacopo da Verona.

Map of Mount Sinai from the Liber in the manuscript James Ford Bell Library, MS 1424/Co.[1]

James of Verona[2] was an Augustinian friar who made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1335 and wrote an account of his travels in Latin, the Liber peregrationis ('The Book of the Pilgrimage').[3] He was probably born in Verona around 1290. He entered the Augustinian order in 1310 or 1311, twenty-five years before his pilgrimage.[4]

## Notes

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1. ^ Westrem 2001, p. 241.
2. ^ His name is anglicized in Di Cesare 2012, who gives the Latin form as Iacobus de Verona. The Italian spelling is Jacopo da Verona in Bartolini 2004 and Giacomo da Verona in Chareyron 2005.
3. ^ Di Cesare 2012, p. 459.
4. ^ Bartolini 2004.

## Bibliography

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* Bartolini, Gabriella (2004). "Jacopo da Verona". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 62: Iacobiti–Labriola (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
* Chareyron, Nicole (2005). Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages. Columbia University Press.
* Di Cesare, Michelina (2012). The Pseudo-historical Image of the Prophet Muhammad in Medieval Latin Literature: A Repertory. De Gruyter.
* Westrem, Scott D. (2001). Broader Horizons: A Study of Johannes Witte de Hese's Itinerarius and Medieval Travel Narratives (PDF). Medieval Academy of America.