mikołaj became famous for a vivid account of his eventful pilgrimage to the holy land published in latin in 1601 and later translated into polish. during his voyage he visited not only palestine, but also syria, egypt, crete, cyprus, italy, and greece. robert burton while on the subject of st. elmo's fire wrote of this voyage in his "anatomy of melancholy": "radzivilius, the polonian duke, calls this apparition, sancti germani sidus; and saith moreover that he saw the same after in a storm, as he was sailing, 1582, from alexandria to rhodes".