Antonio da Noli

Cape Verde Islands

Antonio da Noli (* 1415 in Noli (Liguria) ; † 1497 on Santiago (Cape Verde) or according to other information * 1419 ; † 1491 ) was an Italian navigator of the 15th century who discovered part of the Cape Verde Islands in the service of Portugal .

biography

Antonio da Noli came from a patrician family of the then independent Ligurian Maritime Republic of Noli and sailed in the service of the Genoese before he emigrated to Portugal with his brother Bartolomeo and his nephew Raffaello in 1449 and placed himself in the service of the Infante Henry the Navigator . It is disputed whether he is the same sailor who discovered two of the eastern Cape Verde Islands ( Boa Vista and Santiago) in 1455 and 1456 under the name Antoniotto Usodimare together with Alvise Cadamosto on their way to a repeated expedition along the Gambia River. . The majority of the sources assume that it is a different explorer from Genoa.

Ruins of the Ribeira Grande Cathedral

What is certain, however, is that between 1458 and 1460 - probably due to the news of Cadamosto - he set out for Santiago with his brother and nephew and founded the settlement Ribeira Grande (today Cidade Velha ) at the southern end of the island in 1462 . Like Diogo Afonso, the systematic development of the entire Cape Verde archipelago is ascribed to him. Due to divergent travel reports, however, it is no longer possible to clearly reconstruct which of the individual islands were discovered by him or Afonso and which, on the other hand, go back to exploratory trips by Diogo Dias and Diogo Gomes .

Antonio da Noli is considered to be the namesake of the islands, to which he gave the official name Ilhas de Cabo Verde ("Islands of the Green Cape"). The Portuguese King Alfonso V appointed him governor ( Capitão-donatário ) of Ribeira Grande in 1462 , the first permanently inhabited European colony in the tropics . This office was transferred to his only daughter Branca de Aguiar on April 8, 1497, after De Noli's death, on the condition that she married Jorge Correia, a descendant of the Portuguese royal family.

In memory of him, the Italian Navy baptized a destroyer with the name Antonio Da Noli during World War II . This sank off the coast of Corsica on September 9, 1943, one day after the public announcement of Italy's surrender .

See also

• History of Cape Verdes
• Portuguese colonial history

literature

• Geo Pistarino :  Antonio da Noli. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 3:  Ammirato – Arcoleo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1961.
• Silvano Peloso: Al di là delle colonne d'Ercole. Madera e gli arcipelaghi atlantici nelle cronache italiane di viaggio dell'età delle scoperte . Sette Città, Viterbo 2004
• António Henrique de Oliveira Marques : History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 385). Translated from the Portuguese by Michael von Killisch-Horn. Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-38501-5 .
• Bord Held (Ed.): Cape Verde Islands . Essen 1988
• Emanuele Diotto: Antonio da Noli e la scoperta delle isole del Capo Verde . In: La casana , No. 4, April-June 1983, pp. 10-15
• Bailey W. Diffie / George D. Winius: Explorations to Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands . In: dies .: The Foundations of the Portuguese Empire 1415-1580 . Minneapolis 1977
• Giuseppe Bucciante (Ed.): I Navigatori . Dedalo, Rome 1965
• Prospero Peragallo: Cenni intorno alla colonia italiana in Portogallo nei secoli XIV, XV e XVI . Stabilimento tip. Ved. Papini e Figli, Genoa 1907
• João de Barros : L'Asia . Vincenzo Valgrisio, Venice 1562
• Antonio Montalboddo Fracanzano : Itinerarium Portugallensium e Lusitania in Indiam et Inde in Occidentem et Demum ad Aquilonem . Milan 1507–1508 (New edition: The Voyages of Cadamosto . Hakluyt Society Bull., London 1937)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emanuele Diotto: Antonio da Noli e la scoperta delle Isole del Capo Verde .
2. ↑ cf. Marcello Vittorio Ferrada-Noli: The Italian bond .
3. ↑ cf. Barros (1562), quoted in Emanuele Diotto: Antonio da Noli e la scoperta delle isole del Capo Verde : “In questo medesimo tempo (1461) troviamo ancora che si scoprirono le isole che ora chiamiamo del Capo Verde, da Antonio di Nolle, di natione genovese, et di sangue nobile, che per alcuni dispiaceri che hebbe nella patria sua se ne venne con due navi et un navilio, in compagnia del quale veniva Bartolomeo di Nolle, suo fratello, et Raffaele di Nolle, suo nipote. "
4. ↑ cf. Antoniotto Usodimare and sources that identify him as Antonio da Noli: Sito Ufficiale della Provincia di Savona - Comuni and Noli Vacanze, Noli Hotel, Noli Residence, Noli Agenzie Immobiliari, Noli Agenzia Immobiliare, Noli Case, Noli Appartamenti, Noli Affitti, Noli Savona , Noli Promozioni Hotel, Noli Last Minute Hotel, Noli Annunci Immobiliari, Noli Immobili, Noli Locazioni, Noli Eventi, Noli Camping ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; as well as a neutral source: Il globo di Behaim: Usodimare, Antoniotto o Antoniotto da Noli ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ next to E. Diotto (see above) cf. u. a. arlindo-correia.org: “Cadamosto escreve com certa prosápia, parecendo pura balela a afirmação de que ele eo parceiro que habenrou no mar, Antoniotto Usodimare, foram os primeiros a descobrir as ilhas do sotavento, em Cabo Verde. Sem trazer para aqui toda a discussão sobre o caso, acho mais credível que tenha sido o italiano Antonio Noli a descobri-las, juntamente com seu irmão Bartolomeo eo seu sobrinho Raffaele. "; www.millersville.edu: ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "Henry" the Navigator "employed Antoniotto Usodimare and Antonio da Noli to locate the Cape Verde islands"; cronologia.leonardo.it and Mario Rossetti in www.vittorelli.it: ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "Nel 1456 troviamo altri capitani italiani, Antoniotto Usodimare e il veneziano Alvise di Ca 'da Mosto che, per conto del re di Portogallo, arrivano ed oltrepassano l'Arcipelago del Capo Verde, che sarà poi esplorato da Antonio da Noli nel 1458."  
6. ↑ cf. virtualcapeverde.net ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ cf. E. Diotto (see above) ( Memento of the original dated June 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ cf. Comando Supremo 1943