LC control no. | n 85192486 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Buondelmonti, Cristoforo, approximately 1385-approximately 1430 |
Variant(s) | Buondelmonti, Christophe, approximately 1385-approximately 1430 Buondelmonti, Cristoforo, ca. 1385-ca. 1430 |
Birth date | 1385~ |
Death date | 1430~ |
Place of birth | Florence (Italy) |
Affiliation | Franciscans |
Profession or occupation | Priests Travelers Authors |
Found in | Description des ì‚les de l'archipel grec, 1974: t.p. (Christophe Buondelmonti) p. 139 (Christophori Bondelmontii, presbyteri florentini) Enc. ital., 1930: v. 8, p. 117 (Buondelmonti, Cristoforo; wrote in 1420 Liber Insularum Archipelagi) Diz. biog. degli Ital., 1972 (Buondelmonti, Cristoforo; b. almost certainly in Firenze da Ranieri ca. 1385; nothing known of him after 1430, prob. died shortly thereafter) Wikipedia, June 11, 2017 Cristoforo Buondelmonti; born in Florence in 1386; died circa 1430; Franciscan priest and traveler, and a pioneer in promoting first-hand knowledge of Greece and its antiquities throughout the Western world. He is the author of two historical-geographic works: the Descriptio insulae Cretae (1417) and the Liber insularum Archipelagi (1420)) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristoforo_Buondelmonti> |