A SPY'S REPORT ABOUT TURKISH-OCCUPIED HUNGARY AND BOSNIA IN 1626: THE JOURNEY OF THE DALMATIAN HUMAN...

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" A SPY'S REPORT ABOUT TURKISH-OCCUPIED HUNGARY AND BOSNIA IN 1626: THE JOURNEY OF THE DALMATIAN HUMANIST ATHANASIO GEORGICEO "
István György Tóth

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	811373
Doc. No	:	LA99047
Main Entry	:	István György Tóth
Title & Author	:	A SPY'S REPORT ABOUT TURKISH-OCCUPIED HUNGARY AND BOSNIA IN 1626: THE JOURNEY OF THE DALMATIAN HUMANIST ATHANASIO GEORGICEO [Article]\ István György Tóth
Title of Periodical	:	Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Date	:	1998
Volume/ Issue Number	:	51-1/2
Page No	:	185--218
Abstract	:	The accounts of travellers who crossed the European territory of the Turkish Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -e. g. the descriptions given by Edward Brown from England, and by David Ungnad, Hans Dernschwam and Heinrich Ottendorf from Germany, or even the account of the Turkish traveller, Evlia Chelebi -represent excellent sources. The following hitherto unknown record of a journey may also lay claim to the attention of researchers. In the Rome-based archives of the Holy Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith (Sacra Congregazione de Propaganda Fide) -a body of cardinals which directs Catholic missions across the world -I found a small notebook in one of the volumes containing a mixture of documents. The notebook is entitled ' The report of Athanasio Georgiceo to the Emperor on a journey made in Bosnia in 1626'. The report bears no relation to the documents by which it is surrounded. Furthermore, neither in the minutes of the congregation's meetings nor in the volumes of documents examined by the Congregation did we find mention of Georgiceo or his report. The report most certainly found its way to Rome because it was deemed a document deserving the attention of the Congregation and because it concerned the Catholics in the Balkans. It is my supposition that the nuncio in Vienna, Carlo Caraffa, who was a very active man and greatly interested in both the affairs of the missions and the fate of Turkish-occupied Hungary, passed the document to the cardinals.