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    collected travel narratives printed at Venice in 1559. The editor, Giovan Battista Ramusio, collated manuscripts from the first part of the fourteenth century...
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    Cabeza de Vaca (1542)?” Lemir 17, 87-100. University of Valencia Giovan Battista Ramusio: Delle navigationi et viaggi Terzo volume , pp. 310–330 – "Relatione...
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    descrittione dell’Africa et delle cose notabili che ivi sono by Giovanni Battista Ramusio in his collection of travellers' accounts Delle navigationi e viaggi...
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    Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica, later published by Giovanni Battista Ramusio as Descrittione dell'Africa (Description of Africa) in 1550, centered...
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    nicknamed 'Milione'". According to the 15th-century humanist Giovanni Battista Ramusio, his fellow citizens awarded him this nickname when he came back to...
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  • 1550 in Venice, in a collection of travelogues collected by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. A translation back to Portuguese was commissioned and published in...
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    notabili che lui sono, per Giovan Lioni Africano"Descrittione dell’Africa", as printed in Venice (1550), by Giovanni Battista Ramusio, ed., Primo volume delle...
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    1622) June 11 – King John III of Portugal (b. 1502) July 10 – Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Italian geographer (b. 1485) July 16 – Anne of Cleves, fourth queen...
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  • scritta per Thomé Lopez, scrivano de una nave Portoghesa", in Giovanni Battista Ramusio, ed., Primo volume delle navigationi et viaggi nel qua si contine la...
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