Pedro Ordóñez de Ceballos ( Jaén,

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, 1556 – 1636) was a Spanish adventurer, soldier and eventually priest and writer, best known for his travel around the world between 1589 and 1593. He started and ended his travel in

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, and crossed successively the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans and

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mainland from

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to Quito. Main event in the travel was his stay in

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that lasted for several months in late 1591 and put him in close relation with Emperor

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and his sister, whom he converted to

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. He was then, in February 1592, hold prisoner by the Portuguese adventurer

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and had to pay him a ransom for his release. He had been ordered priest in

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around 1588, and published the story of his travels in 1614 under the title of ''Viaje del Mundo'' (World Travel).

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* Pedro Ordóñez de Ceballos, ''Viaje del mundo'', Madrid, 1993.

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''El «Viaje del mundo» (1614) de Pedro Ordóñez de Ceballos o cómo modelar una autobiografía épica''

''Pedro Ordóñez de Ceballos: un viajero español por la India del siglo XVI'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Ordóñez de Ceballos, Pedro 1556 births Spanish Roman Catholic missionaries 16th-century Spanish Roman Catholic priests 16th-century travel writers Spanish travel writers 17th-century Spanish writers 17th-century Spanish male writers Circumnavigators of the globe 1636 deaths 17th-century Spanish Roman Catholic priests

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