Giosafat Barbaro

Giosafat Barbaro (* 1413 in Venice, † 1494 ) was a Venetian merchant and traveler from the Barbaro family.

Life

1436 Barbaro broke on to the port cities on the Black Sea and then visited Russia, Georgia and the Caucasus. When he returned to Venice in 1451, he took over several offices of the Republic and was in 1473 sent as an envoy to the Shah of Persia, to close with this an alliance against the Ottoman Turks. After a long journey through Persia, where he became acquainted with the customs and languages ​​, he returned in 1477 back again.

Barbaro left a manuscript with a travel report, which was published in 1543 under the title Viaggi fatti de Venetia.

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