Pedro Cubero
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Pedro Cubero Sebastián (El Frasno, Spain, 1645 – c.1697) was a Spanish priest, best known for his travel around the world from 1670 to 1679.
Pedro Cubero was born in the village of El Frasno, near to Calatayud, in the Spanish region of Aragón. He studied in Zaragoza and Salamanca, up to his ordination as a priest in Zaragoza, and soon afterwards went to Rome, where he joined the Propaganda Fide congregation.
In accordance with his missionary work, he undertook in 1670 a journey to East Asia, that eventually led him to complete an eastwards around the world trip. The journey is specially memorable as for the first time in History a considerable part of the way was done overland, through Western and Eastern Europe, Western and Central Asia and North America.
Actually, he visited Paris, Venice, Warsaw, Moscow, Istanbul, Astrakhan, Isfahan, Bandar Abbass, Surat, Goa, Colombo, Mylapore, Malacca, Philippines, Pekin, Moluccas, Acapulco, Veracruz, Havanna and eventually Cádiz, among many other places.
He reached Madrid in January, 1680, just in time to attend the celebrations of the arrival of Maria Luisa of Orléans, recently married to King Charles II of Spain.
He wrote the account of his adventures around the world in a very objetive, detailed and interesting book, Peregrinación del mundo (World's peregrination), first published in Madrid in 1680. An extended second edition was brought out in 1682 in Naples, by then a Spanish possession.
[edit] References
- (Spanish) Pedro Cubero Sebastián, Peregrinación del mundo, Madrid, 1993. ISBN 84-7813-114-0
- (Spanish). "Peregrinación del mundo" de Pedro Cubero Sebastián , Colección Cisneros, dirigida por Don Ciriaco Pérez Bustamante, Catedrático de la Universidad Central. Madrid, (1943). Ediciones Atlas, 174 pages.
(Web page in Spanish, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
