Ambrogio Contarini

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

Viaggio al signor Usun Hassan re di Persia , 1487

Contarini came from a Venetian patrician family and was a son of Benedetto Contarini di Luca. He was a merchant and lived in Constantinople until the 2nd Venetian Turkish War in 1463. In 1474 he went on a diplomatic mission to Persia in order to conclude an alliance against the Ottoman Turks . Contarini traveled to Austria , Poland , Ukraine and the Crimea and finally arrived in Isfahan in 1475 , where he met Giosafat Barbaro , who had been sent a year earlier. In 1476 he was asked to leave. Contarini returned to Venice in 1477 via Tbilisi , Astrakhan and southern Russia . He left a detailed account of this trip with the title: Questo e el viazo de misier Ambrosio Contarin ambasador de la illustrissima signoria de Venesia al signor Uxuncassam Re di Persia . It was first published in 1486. A second edition with the title Itinerario del Magnifico et Clarissimo knife Ambrosio Contarini can be found in the compilation Navigationi et Viaggi (Venice, 1554) by Giovan Battista Ramusio .

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SURNAME Contarini, Ambrogio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian traveler
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH 1499
Place of death Venice