The first voyage of Giovanni da Empoli to India: Mercantile culture, Christian faith, and the early production of knowledge about Portuguese Asia
| العنوان: | The first voyage of Giovanni da Empoli to India: Mercantile culture, Christian faith, and the early production of knowledge about Portuguese Asia |
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| المؤلفون: | Matteo Salonia |
| المصدر: | International Journal of Maritime History. 31:3-18 |
| بيانات النشر: | SAGE Publications, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | History, Early modern period, Christian faith, language, Transportation, Ancient history, Spice trade, Portuguese, Intellectual history, language.human_language |
| الوصف: | Giovanni da Empoli, a Florentine agent and merchant, was among the first Europeans to travel by an exclusively maritime route to India. This article focuses on Giovanni’s first voyage to the East (1503–1504), during which he visited several ports along the Malabar coast. By examining Giovanni’s letter to his father, this contribution explores his (re)emerging identities, and in particular his mercantile outlook and his Christian faith, which suggest a diversity of value systems and agendas among ‘the Portuguese’. The experience of Giovanni is significant also because it represents an instance of production and transfer of knowledge about ‘the Indies’ in early Cinquecento Europe. As suggested by other contemporary sources concerning Giovanni, this circulation of knowledge did not take place only in writing, but also orally, in formal and informal conversations that Giovanni had with a variety of interested interlocutors both in Florence and elsewhere. |
| تدمد: | 2052-7756 0843-8714 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::500d94220867dea2ec323d6eed9013e0 https://doi.org/10.1177/0843871418822446 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........500d94220867dea2ec323d6eed9013e0 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 20527756 08438714 |
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