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    Cristoforo Buondelmonti (c. 1385 – c. 1430) was an Italian Franciscan priest, traveler, and was a pioneer in promoting first-hand knowledge of Greece...
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  • Buondelmonti may refer to: Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Italian monk and traveler Esau de' Buondelmonti, medieval ruler of Epirus Giorgio de' Buondelmonti...
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    (12.3 ft) thick. Galata Tower after Cristoforo Buondelmonti, 1420s or 1430s Galata Tower after Cristoforo Buondelmonti, late 1480s Galata Tower and Pera...
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    recommenced later in the century. The island was so depopulated that Cristoforo Buondelmonti in c. 1420 claimed that there were not enough men to wed the Naxiot...
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  • Cristoforo is a male given name. Saint Cristoforo Cristoforo Agosta Cristoforo Benigno Crespi Cristoforo Besozzi Cristoforo Buondelmonti Cristoforo Canozzi...
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    Map of Constantinople (1422) by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti, showing Pera at the north of the Golden Horn, Constantinople at south...
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    Medieval map of Santorini by Cristoforo Buondelmonti...
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    inland from the shore, and was about 10 metres tall. According to Cristoforo Buondelmonti it featured 14 gates and 110 towers, although 16 gates are known...
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    Map of Lefkada by Cristoforo Buondelmonti, c. 1420...
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    village goes back to 1420, on a reference by the Italian traveler Cristoforo Buondelmonti on his book Liber insularum archipelagi (The Book of the Islands...
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    Map of Constantinople (1422) by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti is the oldest surviving map of the city, and the only one that predates...
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    (modern-day Istanbul), designed in 1422 by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti. This is the oldest surviving map of the city, and the only surviving...
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    declined and Constantinople's population fell. The Florentine Cristoforo Buondelmonti saw the decaying church in 1420. In 1453 Constantinople fell to...
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    Map of Constantinople (1422) by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti, showing (a greatly enlarged) Pera (Beyoğlu) at the north of the Golden...
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    Fifteenth century map by Cristoforo Buondelmonti....
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    founding of the monastery. The Italian Franciscan priest and traveler Cristoforo Buondelmonti visited Crete in 1415, wrote of a similar icon being miraculous:...
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    the Córdoban nobleman Pero Tafur and the Florentine geographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti, the church was in a dilapidated state, with several of its doors...
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  • evidently belonged to this Cretan town. When the Florentine traveller Cristoforo Buondelmonti visited the island in 1415, he found remains existing. Ptolemy...
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    Fifteenth century map by Cristoforo Buondelmonti...
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    This survey was apparently lost until 1415, when the Italian Cristoforo Buondelmonti acquired it at the island of Andros. Athanasius Kircher (1601–1680)...
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    Lübbe, Bergisch-Gladbach 1992. ISBN 3-404-64117-5. (in German) Cristoforo Buondelmonti: Map of Constantinople, from Liber insularum Archipelagi, 1422...
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    is described as being of great height, 70 meters according to Cristoforo Buondelmonti. It was visible from the sea, and once, according to Gregoras,...
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    1422 map of Constantinople by cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti, the oldest surviving map of the city...
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  • evidently belonged to this Cretan town. When the Florentine traveller Cristoforo Buondelmonti visited Crete in 1415, he found remains existing. Ptolemy. The...
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    the Aegean Sea, mostly copied from a previous work by Cristoforo Buondelmonti. Buondelmonti's isolario (island book) had been copied many times during...
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    Sophia. By the early 15th century however, the Italian traveller Cristoforo Buondelmonti reported that the square lay in ruins, and by the time of Pierre...
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    Europeans became interested in hieroglyphs, beginning around 1422 when Cristoforo Buondelmonti discovered a copy of Horapollo's Hieroglyphica in Greece and brought...
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    Horapollo's Ἱερογλυφικά (Hieroglyphica), the book discovered in 1419 by Cristoforo Buondelmonti and believed to be the key for deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics...
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    Map of Constantinople around 1420, after Cristoforo Buondelmonti. The District of Blachernae can be seen on the center left part of the map, surrounded...
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    Museum of Mainz for $1,800,000, the highest price ever paid. "Buondelmonti, Cristoforo (Florence c. 1385-not before 1430 probably Greece). Liber Insularum...
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