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UGOLINO See also:VIVALDO
and SORLEONE DE (fl
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1291-1315), Genoese explorers, connected with the first known expedition in See also:search of an ocean way from See also:Europe to See also:India
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Ugolino, with his See also:brother Guido or Vadino See also:Vivaldo, was in command of this expedition of two galleys, which he had organized in See also:con-junction with Tedisio See also:Doria, and which See also:left See also:Genoa in May 1291 with the purpose of going to India " by the Ocean See also:Sea " and bringing back useful things for, See also:trade
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Planned, primarily for See also:commerce, the enterprise also aimed at proselytism
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Two Franciscan friars accompanied Ugolino
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The galleys were well armed and sailed down the See also:Morocco See also:coast to a See also:place called Gozora (Cape See also:Nun), in 28° 47' N., after which nothing more was heard of them
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See also:Early in the next (14th) See also:century, Sorleone de Vivaldo, son of Ugolino, undertook a See also:series of distant wanderings in search of his See also:father, and even penetrated, it is said, to Magadcxo cn the Somali coast
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In 1455 another Genoese See also:seaman, Antcniotto Uso di See also:Mare, sailing with See also:Cadamosto in the service of See also:Prince See also: 335 (1863) ; the " Conocimiento de todos los Reinos," ed . Marcos Jimenez de la Espada in the Boletin of the See also:Geographical Society of See also:Madrid, vol. ii., No . 2, pp . III, 113, 117-18 (Madrid, See also:February, 1877); See also:Canale, Degli antschi navi See also:atom e scoprttori See also:Genovesi (Genoa, 1846) ; G . H . Pertz, Der alteste Versuck arts Entdeckung See also:des Seeweges nach Ostindien (See also:Berlin, 1859q); Annuli di Geografia e di Statistica See also:corn posti . da Giacomo Grdberg (Genoa, 1802) ; Belgrano, " . . Annali . . . di Caffaro," in Archiv . Stor . Ital., 3rd series, ii . 124, &c., and in Atli della See also:Soc . Lig. di Storia Patria, xv . 320 (1881); W . Heyd, Histoire du commerce du See also:Levant (the improved See also:French edition of the Geschichte des Levantehandels), ii . 140-43 (See also:Paris, 1886) ; C . R . Beazley, See also:Dawn of See also:Modern See also:Geography, iii . 413-19, 551 (See also:Oxford, 1906) . |
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