Angelo Trevisan (diplomat)

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Angelo Trevisan († before April 28, 1508 ) was a Venetian diplomat; He is known for his letters from Granada , in which he passed on news of the Spanish expeditions to Venice .

From 1497 to 1498 he was first secretary to Domenico Malipiero , the Venetian commissioner for the navy, from 1501 then secretary to the Venetian ambassador Domenico Pisani in Spain , from 1503 then secretary to the ambassador Vincenzo Querini , whom he later accompanied to Germany.

During his stay in Spain , Trevisan sent four letters to Domenico Malipiero (copied from the so-called Trevisan Manuscript ) a greatly abridged translation of Pietro Martire d'Anghiera's as yet unpublished writings on the Spanish voyages of discovery to Venice , where an Italian version was printed as early as 1504 . Trevisan also had the opportunity to speak to Christopher Columbus himself .

literature

  • Norbert Ankenbauer: "that i wanted to experience meer newer dyng". The language of the new in the “Paesi novamente retrovati” (Vicenza, 1507) and in its German translation (Nuremberg, 1508) Berlin 2010.
  • Norbert Ankenbauer (Ed.): Paesi novamente retrovati - Newe unbekanthe landed. A digital edition of early discovery reports. Wolfenbüttel: Editiones Electronicae Guelferbytanae 2012 online .
  • Angelo Trevisan: Lettere sul nuovo mondo. Granada 1501. Testo critico, introduzione e note a cura di Angela Caracciolo Aricò . Venezia 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. See Ankenbauer (2010), pp. 94–95.
  2. See Ankenbauer (2010), pp. 94–95.
  3. See Ankenbauer (2010), pp. 94–95, 97.