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Quibus itineribus Turci sint aggrediendi‘The routes by which the Turks should be attacked’ Felix Brutus Petancius (de Petanciis), Felix Petancius Ragusinus, Felice Petanzio Date: 1502 Original Language: Latin Description Quibus itineribus Turci sint aggrediendi is a short work on the routes leading towards the Ottoman Empire. Petančić dedicated it to King Vladislas II. In Agostino Pertusi’s critical edition it comes to 30 pages. Passing over the possible sea routes, the work presents a geographical overview of the land routes t…

Samuel Langhorne Clemens Date of Birth: 30 November 1835 Place of Birth: Florida, Missouri, USA Date of Death: 21 April 1910 Place of Death: Redding, Connecticut, USA BiographySamuel Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on 30 November 1835. When he was 11 years old, his father died and he was apprenticed to a printer in Hannibal, Missouri. For the next 15 years he worked as a printer, reporter and riverboat pilot. After a two-week stint volunteering with a group of Confederate soldiers, Clemens moved to Nevada to try hi…

Biography Alexander Ross (d. 1654), Hugh Ross (d. 1649) and Thomas Ross (d. 1675) (also rendered Rosse), all members of the Scottish clan Ross, have each been identified as translator and editor of the first English version of the Qur’an, the 1649 translation of André du Ryer’s French translation. Alexander Ross’s authorship of the appendix, ‘A needful caveat’, which bears his name, is undisputed. However, responsibility for other sections of the publication, namely, a translator’s note to Christ…