The History of Sabatai Sevi / The Suppos'd Messiah of the Jews
Author: John Evelyn
Jahr: 1669
Quelle: Project Gutenberg
The reader of John Evelyn's History of Sabatai Sevi, The Pretended Messiah of
the Jewes or of the History of the Three Late Famous Impostors (1669) in which
it is the most significant part, discovers a fascinating, if unoriginal,
addition to the work of the great diarist and dilettante, the amateur student
of engraving and trees—and smoke. Evelyn's work was almost totally derived from
the account of Sir Paul Rycaut, who was from 1661 secretary (and later consul)
for the Levant mercantile company in Smyrna. Rycaut was in fact responsible for
what first-hand reporting there is in the History, and Evelyn's book preceded
by only eleven years Rycaut's History of the Turkish Empire 1623-1677, where
the story first appeared under the author's own name.
(Taken from the introduction)
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