Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi

Ugolino de Vivaldo (Italian Ugolino Vivaldi also; † after 1291 ) was a Genoese explorer who was in command in the first known expedition in search of a sea route from Europe to India with his brother Guido de Vivaldo or Vadino.

Life

For the expedition, the brothers de Vivaldo endowed with the aid of Tedisio Doria of two galleys ( Allegranza and Sant'Antonio ). In May 1291 with 300 men left the port of Genoa with the aim of reaching India across the Atlantic and bring home useful commodities. The company was originally created though only for trading, but should obviously serve the Christian mission, because Ugolino accompanied two Franciscans. The well-armed galleys sailed along the Moroccan coast to a place called Gozora (Cape Nun), at 28 ° 47 ' N. After that there was no further sign of life from the expedition.

In the early 14th century took Ugolino de Vivaldo son Sorleone ( † ca 1315) a number of long-distance travel in search of his father. He is supposed to have penetrated to the Somali coast to Mogadishu. In 1455 reported Antoniotto Usodimare - another Genoese navigator who traveled with Alvise Cadamosto in the service of the Portuguese Infante Henry the Navigator - that he had taken near the mouth of the Gambia River the last descendants of survivors of the Vivaldo expedition. According to his statements, the two galleys had come up in the Gulf of Guinea, where one of them was stranded, while the other sailed and landed in a place where the coast of Aethiopia - Mena or Amenuan, near the Gihon ( probably meaning the Senegal River meant is ). There, the Genoese were arrested and imprisoned.

Others

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Sources and Literature

  • Encyclopædia Britannica. Eleventh Edition (1910-1911)
  • Wilhelm Heyd: Histoire du commerce du Levant. Improved French edition of the history of the Levant trade. Paris 1886, ii. , Pp. 140-143
  • LT Belgrano: Annali Genovesi Caffaro di e de ' suoi continuatori. In: Archive. Stor. Ital. 3rd row, ii, pp. 124 ff and in:. Atti della Soc. Ligament di Storia Patria. 1881, xv. , P 320
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  • Georg Heinrich Pertz: The Oldest attempt to discover the sea route to the East Indies. Berlin, 1859
  • Giovanni Antonio Canal: Degli antichi Navigatori scopritori Genovesi. Genoa 1846
  • Jacob Gråberg: Annali di Geografia e di Statistica composti. since Giacomo Gråberg. Genoa 1802
  • Person (Genoa )
  • Discoverer
  • Seafarer
  • Colonial history of Africa
  • Historical person (Italy )
  • Born in the 13th century
  • Died in the 14th century
  • Man
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