It Was
Translated Into English And Published In London In 1575, Under The Title
Of The Traveiler Of Jerome Turler, And Is, As Far As I Know, The First
Book Of The Sort In England.
Not much is known of Turler, save that he
was born at Leissnig, in Saxony, in 1550, studied at
Padua, became a
Doctor of Law, made such extensive travels that he included even
England - a rare thing in those days - and after serving as Burgomaster in
his native place, died in 1602. His writings, other than De
Peregrinatione, are three translations from Machiavelli.[40]
Turler addresses to two young German noblemen his book "written on
behalf of such as are desirous to travell, and to see foreine cuntries,
and specially of students.... Mee thinkes they do a good deede, and well
deserve of al men, that give precepts for traveyl. Which thing,
althoughe I perceive that some have done, yet have they done it here and
there in sundrie Bookes and not in any one certeine place." A discussion
of the advantages of travel had appeared in Thomas Wilson's Arte of
Rhetorique (1553),[41] and certain practical directions for avoiding
ailments to which travellers were susceptible had been printed in Basel
in 1561,[42] but Turler's would seem to be the first book devoted to the
praise of peregrination. Not only does Turler say so himself, but
Theodor Zwinger, who three years later wrote Methodus Apodemica,
declares that Turler and Pyrckmair were his only predecessors in this
sort of composition.[43]
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