Viaggi fatti da Vinetia, alla Tana, in Persia, in India, et in Costantinopoli : con la descrittione particolare di città, luoghi, siti, costumi, et della Porta del gran Turco: & di tutte le intrate, spese, & modo di gouerno suo, & della ultima impresa contra Portoghesi.
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Manuzio, Antonio -approximately 1559
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In Vinegia:
Nelle case de figliuoli di Aldo,
1545
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Description
163, [1] leaves ; 16 cm
Compiled by Antonio Manuzio, son of Aldus Manutius.
Printer's anchor & dolphin device with name "Aldus" on title page; device repeated on verso of final leaf.
Numbered leaves printed on both sides.
Signatures: A-V⁸, X⁴.
The printed register on leaf X3v states " tutti sono quaderni eccetto Z che è duerno" though in fact the volume is complete with X4.
Leaf 39 misnumbered 49.
Spaces with guide letter for capitals; Italic types.
Printer statement from colophon; full colophon reads: In Vinezia nell' anno M.D. XLV. Nelle case de' figlivoli di Aldo.
First published in 1543; colophon: In Vinegia nell’anno M.D. XLIII. nelle case de figlivoli di Aldo.
"Deuxième édition aldine. Elle n'est selon Renouard guère plus commune que la précédente de 1543 et bien mieux imprimée. Antoine Manuce a rassemblé dans ce recueil deux récits de voyages de Josaphat Barbaro, un d'Ambrogio Contarini, deux d'Aluvigi, et deux autres voyages anonymes. Josaphat Barbaro, négociant vénitien, mort en 1494, fit en 1436 un voyage à Tana (Azof). Il se trouvait à Ispahan en 1474 quand le négociateur vénitien Ambrogio Contarini y parvint, après un long détour, pour tenter d'établir une alliance avec la cour de Perse contre les Turcs. 'Ces premières communications des Vénitiens avec la Perse, quoique faites dans un but politique, sont un événement dans l'histoire des voyages et dans celle de la civilisation' (Hoefer). On trouve aussi dans ce volume deux récits de voyages en Inde, 'one of which describes the expedition of Soleyman Bassa against the Portuguese in 1538' (Blackmer). 'Authors include Manuzio himself (in the form of a letter to Antonio Barbarigo), the 15th- century Venetian diplomats Giosofat Barbaro and Ambrogio Contarini, Luigi di Giovanni and Benedetto Ramberti (a new edition of Delle Cose di Turchi)' (Koç)."--AbeBooks.co.uk (viewed June 16, 2016).
"'Tana was the name which the Genoese gave to their factory at Azov at the mouth of the river Don. This volume contains voyages by Giosafat Barbaro (Tana in 1436, Persia 1471), Ambrogio Contarini (Persia 1473-77), and Luigi Roncinotto (Ethiopia 1532, Persia and India in 1529). It also includes Benedetto Ramberti's account of the Turkish Sultan's campaign against the Portuguese settlement of Diu in northern India in 1538' (Atabey). 'This appears to be one of the very few travel books from the Aldine press' (Blackmer)."--AbeBooks.co.uk (viewed June 16, 2016).
"L'opera illustra i viaggi raccontati da ambasciatori e mercanti veneziani ed è dedicata ad Antonio Barbarigo. Tra gli itinerari descritti di particolare interesse sono quelli redatti da Giosafat Barbaro e Ambrogio Contarini, dove viene inclusa la piu antica descrizione di Mosca, visitata nel 1496. Questi testi vennero in seguito inseriti da Giovan Battista Ramusio nel secondo volume delle Navigationi e viaggi (Venezia 1559). L'edizione ripropone inoltre il testo di una relazione anonima, già inserita nella silloge Libri tre delle cose dei Turchi, data alle stampe nell'officina aldina nel 1539."--the saleroom : the home of art & antiques auctions (viewed June 16, 2016).
"Giosafat Barbaro was a fifteenth-century diplomat and merchant who travelled from Venice through central Asia to foster good relations between Venice and its trading partners in the east. During his long career Barbaro visited the Genoan city of Tana (ancient Tanais) near the modern city of Rostov, the Ottoman Empire, Georgia and Persia. His accounts, written in 1487, and printed by Antonio Manuzio, a son of Aldus Manutius, between 1543 and 1545, provide some of the best evidence for Georgia and the nomadic tribes of Central Asia in the late fifteenth century."--Royal Collection Trust website (viewed June 16, 2016).