Zeno brothers

The Zeno brothers, Nicolò Zeno (ca. 1326- ca. 1402) and Antonio Zeno ( † ca 1403 ), were Venetian sailors who are said to have made ​​in the 14th century Traveling in the North Atlantic. The report on these trips was translated into English by Richard Henry Major under the title The Voyages of the Venetian Brothers Nicolò and Antonio Zeno (1873 ).

Research has shown that the Zeno brothers were busy elsewhere during the time in which they should have taken their trips. According to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online "the Zeno affair remains one of the most preposterous and at the same time one of the most successful fabrications in the history of exploration. "