CHS and the Hellenic Centre present the launch of John Muir’s Greek Eyes on Europe: The Travels of Nikandros Noukios of Corfu (published March 2022). Gonda Van Steen will introduce the speakers. Michael Trapp will introduce the Routledge series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London. Peter Jones will lead the discussion and invite questions from the audience.

Nikandros (Andronikos) Noukios was a native of Corfu. Exiled to Venice with his family after the Turkish siege of 1537, he made a living as an editorial assistant to a publisher, and then as a copyist employed by Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the Spanish ambassador to Venice. He then had the opportunity to accompany two diplomatic missions sent by Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, to the court of Suleiman the Magnificent in Constantinople, and to the court of Henry VIII in London. His Journal is an inquisitive traveller’s account of his journeys (including a short spell with a mercenary contingent) through a Europe in the grip of the Reformation.

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