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MALOCELLO, LANCILOTO (" See also:LANZAROTE, the ` See also:Lancelot Maloisiel ' of the See also:French ") , See also:leader of the first of See also:modern See also:European oceanic enterprises. This was a Genoese expedition, which about 1270 seems to have sailed into the Alantic, re-discovered the " Fortunate Islands " or Canaries, and made something of a See also:conquest and See also:settlement in one of the most northerly isles of this See also:archipelago, still known (after the See also:Italian See also:captain) as Lanzarote. According to a See also:Spanish authority of about 1345, the See also:anonymous Franciscan's Conos4imiento de todos los reinos, "Lancarote" was killed by the Canarian natives; but the See also:castle built by him was See also:standing in 1402–1404, when it was utilized for the storage of See also:grain by the French conquerors under Gadifer de la Salle. To Malocello's enterprise, moreover, it is probable that See also:Petrarch (See also:born 1304) alludes when he tells how, within the memory of his parents; an armed See also:fleet of Genoese penetrated to the Fortunatae "; this passage some would refer, without sufficient authority, to the expedition of 1291. Malocello's name and See also:nationality are certainly preserved by those See also:early Portolani or scientific charts (such as the " Dulcert " of 1339 and the " Laurentian Portolano " of 1351), in which the See also:African islands appear, for the first See also:time in See also:history, in clear and recognizable See also:form. Thus Dulcert reads Insula de Lanzarotus and Marocelus, the Laurentian See also:map I. de Lanzarote, against Lanzarote See also:Island, which is well depicted on both designs, and marked with the See also:cross of See also:Genoa. The ConosQimiento (as noticed above) explicitly derives the island-name from the. Genoese See also:commander who perished here. Malocello's enterprise not only marks the beginning of the oversea expansion of western See also:Europe in exploration, conquest and colonization (after the See also:age of Scandinavian See also:world-roving had passed) ; it is also probably not unconnected with the See also:great Genoese venture of 1291 (in See also:search of a waterway to See also:India, which soon follows), with which this See also:attempt at Canarian See also:discovery and dominion has been by some unjustifiably identified. See the Conoscimiento, p. too, as edited by Marcos Jimenez de la Espada in the Boletin de la sociedad geogrdfica de See also:Madrid, See also:February 1877) ; Le Canarien in P. Margry, Conque"te See also:des . Canaries, Co.

177; M. A. P. d'Avezac in vol. vi., See also:

part ii., of L' Univers, pp. 1–41 (Iles africaines de l' ocean atlantique) ; C. R. Beazley, See also:Dawn of Modern See also:Geography, iii. 411–413, 449, 451.

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