Venice<\/p>\n
After about two weeks traveling through Southern Austria and into Northern Italy, Felix Fabri and his group of travelers make it to the \u201cMistress of the Mediterranean,\u201d Venice (Fabri, 22). The arrival in Venice marks critical progress in the pilgrimage towards Jerusalem and an important adjustment in his caravan’s means of travel. Fabri arrives in Venice on the 27th of April where he plans to stay for fourteen days to completely prepare for their long journey across the sea.\u00a0 The tone of Fabri\u2019s narrative changes in Venice, he focuses more on details of specific people of importance, and a new lighthearted and joyful energy is woven into his description of his journeys and the city of Venice itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Once Fabri arrives at the spot where the \u201criver glides into the jaws of the Mediterranean\u201d he is overcome with an uncharacteristic sense of joy (Fabri 21). The crew sings a pilgrim song to praise the Lord and celebrate their feat of reaching the Mediterranean Sea. Fabri writes the song in his native German tongue, but it is translated into English and Latin which reflects his general interest in linguistics. The pivot from land travel to water travel is thoroughly described, Fabri notes many small trials and tribulations of the boats he embarked upon. This pattern mirrors Felix Fabri\u2019s previous interest in the trails of his journey but through a different medium: \u201cour boat was driven to one side by the shock, and struck upon a post which stood in the water, so as to threaten to overset\u201d which shows his broader fascination into means of travel (Fabri 21). Despite the initial difficulties of boat travel, Fabri\u2019s spirits remain uplifted as he slowly sails to the \u201cfamous, great, wealthy, and noble city of Venice\u201d (Fabri 22).<\/span><\/p>\n In Venice, Fabri narrates a more well-rounded description of the city. He cares about the architecture, the natural beauty, the history, the language, the demeanor of the residents, as well as the influential people he meets. He names the Rialto and remarks on the impressive feat of Venice\u2019s existence \u201cwe were astonished to see such weighty and such tall structures with their foundations in the water\u201d presenting the city as a marvel itself (Fabri 22). When they reach their place of residence, Fabri is characteristically focused on language as a means of morality. He describes his hosts as \u201cespecially friendly\u2026eager to wait upon us\u201d and attributes this to their German nationality and speech (Fabri 22). Because \u201cno word of Italian was to be heard in the house, which was a very great comfort to us; for it is very distressing to live with people without being able to converse with them\u201d he asserts German’s superiority over Italians (Fabri 23). However, in this description, Fabri leans into something new – superstition – to further separate Italians and Germans. He describes a dog\u2019s response to people of different nationalities. The dog (of German descent) receives \u201call Germans with joy\u201d whereas it greets Italians (and people from all other countries that are not Germany) \u201cas if it had gone mad, runs at them, barking loudly, leaps furiously upon them, and will not cease from troubling them till someone quiets him\u201d (Fabri 23). Fabri dedicates a whole page to the dog and its varied reactions which differs from the rest of the narrative where he is greatly unconcerned with both non-religious superstition and animals.\u00a0 As Fabri travels farther away from his native land, he becomes more attuned to cultural differences and more focused on presenting Germans as the superior group of people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Venice After about two weeks traveling through Southern Austria and into Northern Italy, Felix Fabri and his group of travelers make it to the \u201cMistress of the Mediterranean,\u201d Venice (Fabri, 22). The arrival in Venice marks critical progress in the pilgrimage towards Jerusalem and an important adjustment in his caravan’s means of travel. 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