conti
conti — 名詞
1. Niccolò de' Conti (c. 1395–1469), a 15th-century Venetian merchant and explorer
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威尼斯商人與探險家
Niccolò de' Conti (c. 1395–1469), a 15th-century Venetian merchant and explorer who traveled widely across the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia, and whose accounts helped shape European knowledge of Asia before the Portuguese voyages.
Niccolò de' Conti spent more than twenty years traveling through India and Southeast Asia before returning to Venice in 1444.
Niccolò de' Conti 花費超過二十年時間遊歷印度與東南亞各地，於 1444 年返回威尼斯。
historical fact: specific years and regions
Travelers like Conti gave Europeans some of their earliest detailed descriptions of the spice markets of Calicut.
像 Conti 這樣的旅行者讓歐洲人首次獲得關於卡利卡特香料市場的詳細描述。
role: source of geographical knowledge
The Portuguese explorer looked for the same pepper ports that Conti had written about decades earlier.
這位葡萄牙探險家尋找的正是 Conti 幾十年前記載的那些胡椒港口。
Historians compare Conti's travel accounts to those of Marco Polo, though Conti reached farther south in Asia.
歷史學家常將 Conti 的遊記與馬可波羅相提並論，但 Conti 到達了亞洲更南端的地區。
Conti's voyage through Burma and Java was documented after his return to Venice in the 1440s.
Conti 穿越緬甸和爪哇的航行是在他於 1440 年代返回威尼斯後記錄下來的。