Giosafat Barbaro

Giosafat Barbaro

Giosafat Barbaro (or Josaphat) (1413-1494) was a Venetian diplomat, merchant and explorer.

Barbaro was first Venetian consul to Azov, and subsequently commander of Albania. On September 27, 1472, Barbaro was appointed ambassador by the Venetian senate to Uzun Hassan at Tabriz, to which mission he departed on February 18, 1473 ["Mehmed the Conqueror & His Time", pg 319, Franz Babinger, Trans. RalphManheim, Princeton University Press; Dec 7, 1992] .

His work "Journey to the Tanais, Persia, India, and Constantinople" (1543) is included in Giovanne Baptista Ramusio's "Collection of Travels" [ [http://www.archive.org/details/universaldict01thomrich "Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. Vol. I."] , pg.262, Thomas Joseph, Philadelphia, PA, USA: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1870] .

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* [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/kerr/vol01chap19.html Travels of Josaphat Barbaro Ambassador from Venice to Tanna in 1436]


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