Ambrogio Contarini
Ambrogio Contarini (* in Venice ; † 1499 ibid) was a Venetian diplomat and traveler of the 15th century.
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 .
literature
- Marica Milanesi: CONTARINI, Ambrogio. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 28: Conforto-Cordero. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1983.
- Encyclopedia Iranica digitized version
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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 |