Ambrogio Contarini

Ambrogio Contarini ( Venice *, † 1499 ) was a Venetian diplomat and traveler of the 15th century.

Contarini came from a Venetian patrician family and was the son of Benedetto Contarini di Luca. He was a merchant and lived until the second Venetian war against the Turks in 1463 in Constantinople Opel. In 1474 he went on a diplomatic mission to Persia, there to form an alliance against the Ottoman Turks. Contarini traveled to Austria, Poland, the Ukraine and the Crimea and finally came in 1475 in Isfahan, where he met Giosafat Barbaro, who had been a year before sent out. In 1476 he was invited abzufahren. About Tbilisi, Astrakhan and Southern Russia came back in 1477 Contarini in Venice. He left a detailed account of this journey with the title: Questo e el de viazo misier Ambrosio Contarin ambasador de la illustrissima signoria de Venesia al signor Uxuncassam Re di Persia. He appeared in 1486 for the first time in print. A second edition entitled Itinerary del Magnifico et Clarissimo knife Ambrosio Contarini found in the Collection Navigationi et Viaggi (Venice, 1554 ) by Giovan Battista Ramusio.