Giosafat Barbaro (also Giosaphat or Josaphat) (1413–1494) was a member of the Venetian Barbaro family. He was a diplomat, merchant, explorer and travel writer.[1][2] He was unusually well-travelled for someone of his times.[3]
^A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 3, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1857, pg. 137 ISBN 978-0-333-76094-9
^A. M. Piemontese, "'Barbaro, Giosafat". Encyclopædia Iranica, Vol. III, Fasc. 7, p. 758.
^Una famiglia veneziana nella storia: i Barbaro, Michela Marangoni, Manlio Pastore Stocchi, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1996, pg. 120, ISBN 978-88-86166-34-8
GiosafatBarbaro (also Giosaphat or Josaphat) (1413–1494) was a member of the Venetian Barbaro family. He was a diplomat, merchant, explorer and travel...
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The Italian Venetian diplomats Caterino Zeno, Ambrogio Contarini and GiosafatBarbaro travel to Persia. 1487–1491: Portuguese explorer and spy Pêro da Covilhã...
Bathsheba, mother of Solomon), was first identified by Venetian traveller GiosafatBarbaro and later by Johan Albrecht de Mandelslo. It was first identified as...
GiosafatBarbaro was selected as another Venetian ambassador to Persia, due to his experience in the Crimean, Muscovy, and Tartary. Although Barbaro got...
records of their travels were members of the Scuola: Ambrogio Contarini, GiosafatBarbaro, and Alvise da Mosto. Jacopo Tintoretto furnished the Scuola with three...
he mentioned only a great, ruined city called "Comerum". In 1474, GiosafatBarbaro visited the ruins of Persepolis, which he incorrectly thought were...
Christian saint of India, appearing in the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat GiosafatBarbaro (1413–94), Venetian explorer and diplomat Josephat T. Benoit (1900–76)...
journey from the Mongol Great Khan's court. In 1476 Venetian diplomat GiosafatBarbaro, while describing the city, stated: "This [Sammachi] is a good city;...
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decipherment were largely unsuccessful. In the 15th century, the Venetian GiosafatBarbaro explored ancient ruins in the Middle East and came back with news of...
of Ferdinand I and returned to Albania. Spring Skanderbeg met with GiosafatBarbaro in Shkodër, the Venetian provveditore in Venetian Albania, and gathered...
15th century. The Venetian diplomats, GiosafatBarbaro and Ambrogio Contarini, call Batumi Vati or Vathi. Barbaro reports it being one of the two ports...
established diplomatic relations with Uzun Hassans court at Tabriz. In 1473, GiosafatBarbaro was sent to Tabriz. In his reports to the Senate of Venetia he mentions...
defeated Ulugh Muḥammad in 1437, took over Azov (as witnessed by GiosafatBarbaro and the Crimea 1438, ruled also between the Don and Kazakhstan steppe...
: 178 GiosafatBarbaro (1413–1494) Son of Antonio. Traveled to Tana in 1436. In 1473, he was one of several Venetian ambassadors to Persia. Barbaro also...
including the accounts of Marco Polo, Niccolò Da Conti, Magellan and GiosafatBarbaro, as well as the Descrittione dell’ Africa. He also published an excerpt...
Europe with Uzun Hassan's reply ( his place in Aq Qoyunlu was taken by GiosafatBarbaro and Ambrogio Contarini). During his return he risked being captured...
record of rug weaving under the Mamluks is by the Venetian traveler GiosafatBarbaro, made during his visit to Tabriz in 1474 when he noted that the quality...
Marco Polo, Niccolò Da Conti, Magellan, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and GiosafatBarbaro, as well as the Descrittione dell’ Africa. The description of China...
documents, it is mentioned by the foreign visitors of Georgia, such as GiosafatBarbaro and Ambrogio Contarini in the 1470s, Nikifor Tolochanov and Aleksey...
interviewed by Milanese officials, their report possibly not published 1487: GiosafatBarbaro Venetian to Sea of Azov, published 1543 1515 Jacob Piso: Polish anti-Russian...
al signor Usun Hassan re di Persia (in Venetian). Annibale Fossi. GiosafatBarbaro Bertotti, Filippo (1992), "Contarini, Ambrogio", in: Encyclopædia Iranica...
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