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Buondelmonti, Cristoforo, approximately 1385-approximately 1430

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Personal name headingBuondelmonti, Cristoforo, approximately 1385-approximately 1430
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Variant(s)Buondelmonti, Christophe, approximately 1385-approximately 1430
Buondelmonti, Cristoforo, ca. 1385-ca. 1430
Birth date1385~
Death date1430~
Place of birthFlorence (Italy)
AffiliationFranciscans
Profession or occupationPriests Travelers Authors
Found inDescription 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))
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