Venetian trade empire

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Hammer Price:€500

Lot Number:194

Artist:Niccolo d'Ardia Caracciolo RHA (1941-1989)

Title:Continental Village

Signature:signed with initials lower left

Medium:oil on board

Size:25½ x 19½cm (10 x 7.7in)

Framed Size:39.75 x 33.25cm (15.6 x 13.1in)

Provenance:Private Collection

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Niccolo Milanese is a philosopher and writer. He is a founding director of European Alternatives, a trailblazing and prize-winning organisation active for over 15 years across the European continent exploring and promoting democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation state. He was educated in philosophy Cambridge, Siena and Paris, and has held research fellowships in Oxford, Mexico City, Rio De Janeiro and Vienna. At the European University Institute he is one of the convenors of the Forum on Transnational Democracy, which brings together practitioners, politicians, civil servants and academics. As a leading civic educator, he is involved in developing a new critical, posthuman and planetary approach to citizenship education in hundreds of schools across Europe. He is currently a lead researcher in transnational research projects on how feminist movements are leading democratic innovation; in movement education and political imagination; and in the rights and agency of migrant workers. Together with Lorenzo Marsili he published Citizens of Nowhere: Saving Europe from Itsel

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Niccolò de' Conti

Italian merchant, explorer, and writer

Niccolò de' Conti
Born	c. 1395 Venice, Republic of Venice
Died	1469 (aged c. 74)
Occupation(s)	Merchant, explorer, writer
Known for	Travels in India, Southeast Asia
Children	4

Niccolò de' Conti (c. 1395 – 1469)^[1] was a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer. Born in Chioggia, he traveled to India and Southeast Asia, and possibly to Southern China, during the early 15th century. He was one of the sources used to create the 1450 Fra Mauro map, which indicated that there was a sea route from Europe around Africa to India.^[2]

De' Conti departed from Venice around 1419 and established himself in Damascus, Syria, where he studied Arabic. Over a period of 25 years, his familiarity with the languages and cultures of the Islamic world enabled him to travel to many places on ships owned by Islamic merchants.

De' Conti's travels followed the period of Timurid relations with Europe.^[3] They also occurred around the same time and in the same places as the Chines