(), a native of Corcyra, born about the beginning of the sixteenth century who was driven from his own country by various misfortunes, and took refuge at Venice.
At Venice he was taken into the service of Gerard Veltuyckus, or Veltwick (with whom he
had been previously acquainted), who was going as ambassador from the emperor Charles V. to
the court of the Sultan Solyman,
There is a MS. of this work in the Bodleian library at Oxford (containing two books, but
not quite perfect at the end), from which second book has
been edited in Greek with an English translation under the direction of Dr. Cramer, small
4to., 1841, London, printed for the Camden Society.
There is another and more complete MS. of Nucius's Travels preserved in the Ambrosian
library at Milan, consisting of three books, from which there was,
some years ago, an intention on the part of one of the officers of the library of editing
the work, but the writer is not aware that this intention has ever been put into
execution.
Compare Dr. Cramer's Introduction to his edition.