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Niccolò de' Conti (c. 1395 – 1469) [1] was a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer. Born in Chioggia, he traveled to India and Southeast Asia, and possibly to Southern China, during the early 15th century.
Niccolò dei Conti (born c. 1395, Chioggia?, near Venice—died 1469, Venice?) was a Venetian merchant who brought back a vivid account of his 25 years of travels in southern Asia. As a young man living in Damascus, he learned Arabic.
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Between 1419 and 1444, Niccolò de' Conti undertook an odyssey that has been compared with that of Marco Polo some 150 years before. Like Polo, Conti was a Venetian merchant who realized in his youth that international trade offered boundless opportunities for adventure, and like Polo he spent a quarter-century traveling in the East. Both men wrote ...
Western European contact with the East—not just the Far East, later visited by both Polo (1254-1324) and Conti (c. 1396-1469), but even parts of the Near or Middle East—had all but ceased with the decline of the Western Roman Empirein the fourth century a.d. It is more than a little ironic, then, that the beginnings of this isolation more or less c...
Over the course of a quarter-century, Conti had mingled with many varieties of peoples and had observed numerous cultures and ways of life firsthand. He had spent time among Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and practitioners of other religions, including breakaway forms of Christianity. These facts made him a great curiosity among the Venetians, as did ...
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Bantock, Nick. The Venetian's Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996. Conti, Niccolò de', and Marco Polo. The Most Noble and Famous Travels of Marco Polo Together with the Travels of Niccolò de' Conti,translated by John Frampton, edited by N. M. Penzer. London: Argonaut Press, 1937. Major, R. H., ed. India in the Fifteenth Century.London: Hakluyt Society, 1857.
Niccolò de' Conti (c. 1395 – 1469) [1] was a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer. Born in Chioggia, he traveled to India and Southeast Asia, and possibly to Southern China, during the early 15th century.
The Venetian merchant-adventurer Niccolò de'Conti (ca. 1396-1469) contributed greatly to Europe's knowledge of the Eastern world. Niccolò de'Conti was from a noble mercantile family; at an early age he decided to follow in the family tradition by establishing a lucrative trading operation in the East. Unlike most of his fellow Venetians ...
THE TRAVELS OF NICOLÒ CONTI IN THE EAST IN THE EARLY PART OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY; Edited by Richard Henry Major; Book: India in the Fifteenth Century; Online publication: 05 April 2012; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511695834.004
"Conti, Niccolò de'" published on by Oxford University Press. (c.1395–1469),Venetian traveller, born into a noble merchant family in Chioggia. In 1419 he left Venice on a journey that was to last for 25 years.
