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VIVALDO, UGOLINO and SORLEONE DE (fl. 1291-1315), Genoese explorers, connected with the first known expedition in See also:search of an ocean way from See also:Europe to See also:India. Ugolino, with his See also:brother Guido or Vadino Vivaldo, was in command of this expedition of two galleys, which he had organized in See also:con-junction with Tedisio See also:Doria, and which See also:left See also:Genoa in May 1291 with the purpose of going to India " by the Ocean See also:Sea " and bringing back useful things for, See also:trade. Planned, primarily for See also:commerce, the enterprise also aimed at proselytism. Two Franciscan friars accompanied Ugolino. The galleys were well armed and sailed down the See also:Morocco See also:coast to a See also:place called Gozora (Cape See also:Nun), in 28° 47' N., after which nothing more was heard of them. See also:Early in the next (14th) See also:century, Sorleone de Vivaldo, son of Ugolino, undertook a See also:series of distant wanderings in search of his See also:father, and even penetrated, it is said, to Magadcxo cn the Somali coast. In 1455 another Genoese See also:seaman, Antcniotto Uso di See also:Mare, sailing with See also:Cadamosto in the service of See also:Prince See also:Henry the Navigator of See also:Portugal, claimed to have met, near the mouth of the See also:Gambia, with the last descendant of the survivors of the Vivaldo expedition. The two galleys, he was told, had sailed to the Sea of See also:Guinea; in that sea one was stranded, but the other passed on to a place on the coast of See also:Ethiopia-See also:Mena or Amenuan, near the Gihon (here probably meaning the See also:Senegal)—where the Genoese were seized and held in See also:close captivity. See Jacopo Doria, " Annales " (under A.D. 1291) in See also:Pertz, Monuments Germaniae historica. Scriptores, xviii.

335 (1863) ; the " Conocimiento de todos los Reinos," ed. Marcos Jimenez de la Espada in the Boletin of the See also:

Geographical Society of See also:Madrid, vol. ii., No. 2, pp. III, 113, 117-18 (Madrid, See also:February, 1877); See also:Canale, Degli antschi navi See also:atom e scoprttori See also:Genovesi (Genoa, 1846) ; G. H. Pertz, Der alteste Versuck arts Entdeckung See also:des Seeweges nach Ostindien (See also:Berlin, 1859q); Annuli di Geografia e di Statistica See also:corn posti . da Giacomo Grdberg (Genoa, 1802) ; Belgrano, " . . Annali . . . di Caffaro," in Archiv. Stor. Ital., 3rd series, ii. 124, &c., and in Atli della See also:Soc. Lig. di Storia Patria, xv.

320 (1881); W. Heyd, Histoire du commerce du See also:

Levant (the improved See also:French edition of the Geschichte des Levantehandels), ii. 140-43 (See also:Paris, 1886) ; C. R. Beazley, See also:Dawn of See also:Modern See also:Geography, iii. 413-19, 551 (See also:Oxford, 1906).

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