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    Giovanni Battista Ramusio (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista raˈmuːzjo]; July 20, 1485 – July 10, 1557) was an Italian geographer and travel...
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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...
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  • authority among all civilized nations. The best known of the Ramusio was Giovanni Battista Ramusio, who published Delle navigationi e viaggi, a collection...
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    book 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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    navigationi et viaggi, a work done in Venice between 1550 and 1556 by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. The perfect, regular arrangement of the houses, conforming to...
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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...
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    Amerigo Vespucci in .jpg and .tiff format. Soderini Letters in Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Primo Volume delle Nauigationi et Viaggi (in Italian), Venetia...
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  • form before it was eventually published by Italian historian Giovanni Battista Ramusio in 1550–59. The account centers on the events in the Mariana Islands...
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    Bolani. He also had a brother named Pietro. Geographer and writer Giovanni Battista Ramusio was Navagero's distant cousin, and would grow to be among his...
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    Russell (2000:p.97n14). Cadamosto (Engl. 1811 trans., (p. 213). Giovanni Battista Ramusio, publisher of the 1550 Italian edition of Cadamosto's memoir,...
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    what Apostolo Zeno (1668–1750) calls lingua inculta e rozza. Giovanni Battista Ramusio first includes Odoric's narrative in the second volume of the...
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    time, as it was presented to the pope, published and quoted by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. By the time Emperor Lebna Dengel and the Portuguese had established...
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  • explicitly willed that he be set free upon his death. A discourse by Giovanni Battista Ramusio also claims that Enrique warned the Chief of "Subuth" that the...
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  • "crowned" Poet Laureate to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. Giovanni Battista Ramusio becomes secretary to Alvise (or Aloisio) Mocenigo, member of the...
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  • inhabitants (1516, originally known through the testimony of Italian Giovanni Battista Ramusio) Antonio Pigafetta (c. 1491 – c. 1531), Venetian explorer. Relazione...
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  • Cartier in 1535. 1556 – On his map of Hochelaga, Italian geographer Giovanni Battista Ramusio wrote Monte Real to designate Mount Royal. 1575 – In his Cosmographie...
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    person. Tea was first introduced to Europe by Italian traveler Giovanni Battista Ramusio, who in 1555 published Voyages and Travels, containing the first...
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    the name came from an Italian translation. Venetian geographer Giovanni Battista Ramusio used the name Monte Real to designate Mount Royal in his 1556...
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    needed] According to a later tradition (16th century) recorded by Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Marco Polo was one of those among the Venetian prisoners and...
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    Haute-Éthiopie, Tome Ier, Paris, 1868 Alvares, Francisco in: Giovanni Battista Ramusio Historiale description de l'Ethiopie, contenant vraye relation...
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  • account of the Villalobos voyage was published in 1550–1559 by Giovanni Battista Ramusio, an Italian historian, in his Navigations and Travels (Navigationi...
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    Antonio Pigafetta account by Giovanni Battista Ramusio and the secondhand account by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas. Ramusio wrote the fleet anchored in...
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    unification under the Mongol Empire. 1245–1247: The Italian Franciscan Giovanni da Pian del Carpine appointed Papal Legate and accompanied by Stephen of...
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    Publication in Venice of Delle Navigiationi et Viaggi (terzo volume) by Giovanni Battista Ramusio, secretary of Council of Ten, with plan La Terra de Hochelaga...
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    18th century, J. Ballantyne & Co., 1811, p. 239; (in Italian) Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Primo volume delle nauigationi et viaggi nel qual si contiene...
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    Map showing the city of Cusco during the Inca Empire. Painting of 1565 by Giovanni Battista Ramusio....
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    of Africa and of the Notable Things Therein Contained. Venice: Giovanni Battista Ramusio. de Marmol y Carvajal, Luis (1573). De la Descripcion General...
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    time, as it was presented to the pope, published and quoted by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. In 1509, the Portuguese under Francisco de Almeida won a critical...
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    the name appears three times in reports about Cortés written by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. However, the name California also appears in a 1542 journal kept...
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    to the banquet were slain, except for Enrique. A discourse by Giovanni Battista Ramusio claims that Enrique warned the Chief of Subuth [sic] that the...
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