Il viaggio di Pedro Manuel de Urrea nell’Italia rinascimentale e la presenza della Peregrinación de las tres casas sanctas in una biblioteca di frontiera

The presence of the Peregrinación de las tres casas sanctas de Jerusalem, Roma y Santiago is registered in the collection of the noble Salvador Aymerich (1493-1563). This is a pilgrimage relationship written by Pedro Manuel de Urrea and printed in Burgos in 1523. The work describes the journey between Rome, Holy Land and Santiago de Compostela that Pedro did between 1517 and 1519. Along the way, the author described the characteristics (political, cultural, demographic, economic and religious) of the crossed countries: for this reason, the Peregrinación is an extraordinary source for the historian. This article analyses the information on the Italian part of the journey: in several cases, such as Cagliari, the Peregrinación provides valuable information and it results the first printed description of those cities and villages. Finally, the study allows to contextualize the presence of this book in the Aymerich’s library and in the intellectual environment of the Sardinian Renaissance.