The Seyahatname (‘Book of Travels’) is an impressive historical-geographical work in ten volumes considered a masterpiece of seventeenth-century Turkish literature. It was written by Evliya Çelebi, a Turk from Istanbul who travelled the length and breadth of the Ottoman Empire and described all the places he visited. Rocchi’s book provides the first Italian translation of Evliya’s account on his travels through Dalmatia. The text is accompanied by numerous explanatory notes, linguistic comment and indexes.
