Word: fabri
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Friar Felix at Large, by H. F. M. Prescott. The rough and rocky road to Je rusalem as traveled by 1 5th Century -Frater Felix Fabri, and described with Chaucerian zest in his account; retold in a good night's reading by Novelist Prescott (TIME, April...
...staff, danger and dust, and have a fairly comfortable time. To learn what such journeys once involved, pilgrims and non-pilgrims can turn to Friar Felix at Large, by British Novelist H.F.M. Prescott. It is based largely on the 15th Century's 1,500-page Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terrae Sanctae, perhaps the best account ever given of the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and one of the merriest books to come out of the Middle Ages...
Frater Felix Fabri, a Dominican, was born in Zurich about 1441, of a well-to-do family named Schmidt. He was a jolly friar, and he "dared, among great things and true, grave things and holy, to mingle things silly, improbable, and comical" with such gusto that a reader may sometimes think he has strayed into a company bound for Canterbury...