Index viatorum extra Europam saec. XIII-XVIII
Niccolo dei Conti
Dates of travel: 1414-39Areas visited: Damascus, Iraq, Persia, India, Sumatra, Java
Birth / Death:ca. 1395 / 1469
City of Origin / Family: Chioggia / Venice merchant family
Report/Manuscript:
Report/Publication: Poggio Braccioloni, Historia de varietate fortunae, ed. Giovanni Oliva, Domenico Giorgi, Paris 1723, lib. IV, pp. 126-50 (ca. 1444)
(Latin) De l'Inde: les voyages en Asie de Niccolo de' Conti. De varietate fortunae, livre IV, ed., transl. Michèle Guéret-Laferté, Turnhout 2004.
Translation: Modern English: (Poggio Bracciolini) The Travels of Nicolò Conti in the East in the Early Part of the Fifteenth Century, transl. John Winter Jones, in: India in the Fifteenth Century. Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India in the century preceding the Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope; from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian Sources now first translated into English, ed. / transl. R. H. Major (Hakluyt Society 22), London 1857.
Modern French: De l'Inde: les voyages en Asie de Niccolo de' Conti. De varietate fortunae, livre IV, ed., transl. Michèle Guéret-Laferté, Turnhout 2004.
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Anselme Adorno | Antonio de Abreu | Afonso de Albuquerque | Francesco de Almeida | Diogo de Azambuja | ...Duarte Barbosa | Jean de Bethencourt | Wilhelm von Boldensele | Bernhard von Breydenbach | ...
Giovanni Caboto | Pedro Álvares Cabral | Pêro Vaz de Caminha | Diogo Cao | Jacques Cartier | Niccolo dei Conti | Pero da Covilha | ...
Alvise ca'Da Mosto | Bartolomeu Dias | Dinis Dias | ...
Gil Eanes | Goncalo Eanes | Pedro de Evora | ...
Felix Fabri | Jacme Ferer | Martin Frobisher | ...
Vasco da Gama | Geoffrey of Langley | Humphrey Gilbert | Giovanni de Gallofonte | Buscarel de Giuzulfis (Ghizolfi) | Antão Gonçalves | Ruy González de Clavijo | Konrad Grünemberg | ...
Arnold van Harff | ...
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Carsten Niebuhr | Afanassij Nikitin | João da Nova | ...
Oderico de Pordonone | ...
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Pedro Fernandez de Quiros | ...
Rodrigo Rabelo | Nicoloso da Recco | Pero Reinel | ...
Johann Jacob Saar | Hans Schiltberger | Willem Schouten | Francesco Serrão | Balthasar Sprenger | Hans Staden | ...
Pero Tafur | Tristão Vaz Teixeira | Luis Vaez de Torres | Nuno Tristão | Hans Tucher | ...
Antoniotto Usodimare | ...
Ludovico de Varthema | Giovanni da Verrazzano | Ugolino and Vadino Vivaldi | ...
João Gonçales Zarco | Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg | ...