Cristoforo Buondelmonti

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Cristoforo Buondelmonti was born in Florence (Firenze), Italy in about 1385. He is a famous Italian traveler of the fifteenth century and a pioneer in promoting first-hand knowledge of Greece and its antiquities throughout the Western world. He left Florence around 1414 in order to travel, mainly in the Greek islands. He is the author of two historical-geographic works: the Descriptio insulae Cretae (1417) and the Liber insularum Archipelagi (1420). These two books are a combination of geographical information and contemporary charts and sailing directions. He died c. 1430.

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• G. Gerola, “Le vedute di Costantinopoli di Cristoforo Buondemonti,” SBN 3 (1931): 247–79.