• Giosafat Barbaro (also Giosaphat or Josaphat) (1413–1494) was a member of the Venetian Barbaro family. He was a diplomat, merchant, explorer and travel...
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  • poet and scholar (born 1414) 1493 – Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (born 1453) 1494 – Giosafat Barbaro, Italian travel writer, diplomat and explorer...
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    The Italian Venetian diplomats Caterino Zeno, Ambrogio Contarini and Giosafat Barbaro travel to Persia. 1487–1491: Portuguese explorer and spy Pêro da Covilhã...
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    Iran. The first Europeans visiting this tomb were Venetian traveler Giosafat Barbaro and later by Johan Albrecht de Mandelslo. It was first identified as...
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    Giosafat Barbaro was selected as another Venetian ambassador to Persia, due to his experience in the Crimean, Muscovy, and Tartary. Although Barbaro got...
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  • head of the Barbaro 'ndrina Francesco Barbaro (Patriarch of Aquileia) Giosafat Barbaro, fifteenth century author and explorer Gary Barbaro (born 1954)...
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    Orazio Antinori (1811–1882) Alberto Maria de Agostini (1883–1960) Giosafat Barbaro (1413–1494) Giacomo Beltrami (1779–1855) Scipione Borghese (1871–1927)...
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  • Christian saint of India, appearing in the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat Giosafat Barbaro (1413–94), Venetian explorer and diplomat Josephat T. Benoit (1900–76)...
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    he mentioned only a great, ruined city called "Comerum". In 1474, Giosafat Barbaro visited the ruins of Persepolis, which he incorrectly thought were...
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    records of their travels were members of the Scuola: Ambrogio Contarini, Giosafat Barbaro, and Alvise da Mosto. Jacopo Tintoretto furnished the Scuola with three...
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  • Baraldi Ermolao Barbaro (1454–1493) Ermolao Barbaro (bishop) (1410–1474) Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) Giosafat Barbaro (1413–1494) Marco Barbaro (1511–1570)...
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    decipherment were largely unsuccessful. In the 15th century, the Venetian Giosafat Barbaro explored ancient ruins in the Middle East and came back with news of...
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    Chinese 15th South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, East African coast Giosafat Barbaro Italian 15th Black Sea, Near East Duarte Barbosa Portuguese 15th/16th...
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    15th century. The Venetian diplomats, Giosafat Barbaro and Ambrogio Contarini, call Batumi Vati or Vathi. Barbaro reports it being one of the two ports...
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  • defeated Ulugh Muḥammad in 1437, took over Azov (as witnessed by Giosafat Barbaro and the Crimea 1438, ruled also between the Don and Kazakhstan steppe...
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    journey from the Mongol Great Khan's court. In 1476 Venetian diplomat Giosafat Barbaro, while describing the city, stated: "This [Sammachi] is a good city;...
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  • Printed for the Hakluyt Society. Giosofat Barbaro. Giosafat Barbaro (1413–1494), also known as Josafa Barbaro, a diplomat, merchant, explorer and travel...
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    Marco Polo, Niccolò Da Conti, Magellan, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and Giosafat Barbaro, as well as the Descrittione dell’ Africa. The description of China...
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  • including the accounts of Marco Polo, Niccolò Da Conti, Magellan and Giosafat Barbaro, as well as the Descrittione dell’ Africa. He also published an excerpt...
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    record of rug weaving under the Mamluks is by the Venetian traveler Giosafat Barbaro, made during his visit to Tabriz in 1474 when he noted that the quality...
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    established diplomatic relations with Uzun Hassans court at Tabriz. In 1473, Giosafat Barbaro was sent to Tabriz. In his reports to the Senate of Venetia he mentions...
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  • of Ferdinand I and returned to Albania. Spring Skanderbeg met with Giosafat Barbaro in Shkodër, the Venetian provveditore in Venetian Albania, and gathered...
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    : 178  Giosafat Barbaro (1413–1494) Son of Antonio. Traveled to Tana in 1436. In 1473, he was one of several Venetian ambassadors to Persia. Barbaro also...
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    Europe with Uzun Hassan's reply ( his place in Aq Qoyunlu was taken by Giosafat Barbaro and Ambrogio Contarini). During his return he risked being captured...
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    interviewed by Milanese officials, their report possibly not published 1487: Giosafat Barbaro Venetian to Sea of Azov, published 1543 1515 Jacob Piso: Polish anti-Russian...
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  • Ambrogio Contarini... (1873). In Travels to Tana and Persia (1873), by Giosafat Barbaro (1413–1494) and Ambrogio Contarini. Translated from the Italian by...
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  • Latine into English, by Thomas Harvey. Barbaro, Giosofat. Giosafat Barbaro (1413–1494), also known as Josafa Barbaro, was a diplomat, merchant, explorer...
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    League of Lezhë definitively, however, had been defeated. He met with Giosafat Barbaro in Scutari, the Venetian provveditore in Albania Veneta, where he gathered...
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    al signor Usun Hassan re di Persia (in Venetian). Annibale Fossi. Giosafat Barbaro Bertotti, Filippo (1992), "Contarini, Ambrogio", in: Encyclopædia Iranica...
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    documents, it is mentioned by the foreign visitors of Georgia, such as Giosafat Barbaro and Ambrogio Contarini in the 1470s, Nikifor Tolochanov and Aleksey...
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