Andrea Corsali - Letter to Giuliano de Medici, 1516, with additional material, 1989
Andrea Corsali - Letter to Giuliano de Medici, 1516, with additional material, 1989
Andrea Corsali - Letter to Giuliano de Medici, 1516, with additional material, 1989
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1516, 1989
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Safe 1/239
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0.04 metres of textual material (2 boxes) - manuscript on vellum (contemporary copy) and typescript (additional material)
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Out of copyright : published in 1516
Approval for reproduction required : of the Bruce & Joy Reid Foundation
Please acknowledge : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Bruce and Joy Reid Foundation
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BOX 1
The manuscript is a contemporary copy of "Lettera di Andrea Corsali allo Illustrissimo Signore Duca Juliano de Medici, Venuta Dellindia del mese di Octobre Nel M.D. XVI". It was prepared for Andrea Gritti, Doge of Venice from 1523. It provides the only known narrative of a Portuguese voyage in 1515 down the African coast, around the Cape...
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Andrea Corsali - Letter to Giuliano de Medici, 1516, with additional material, 1989
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Notes
General note
For a complete translation of the letter, its broader contextual history and biographical information about Corsali, see Sergio Sergi, "Andrea Corsali: Fiorentino. A watcher of the Austral Skies", Canberra, 2013.
Microfilm copy: CY 4477, frames 21 - 111
Digital order no:a1185001
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Deposited by Dr Bruce Reid on behalf of the Bruce & Joy Reid Foundation, October 2003
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Andrea Corsali was a Florentine under the patronage of the Medici family in the service of the Portuguese.
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Safe 1/239
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Yold0m39
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yold0m39
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439838
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