Niccolao manucci biography of christopher columbus

Venetian traveller, writer and physician

Niccolao Manucci
Portrait of Manucci, National Library of France, Cabinet of Prints, Paris.
Born	19 April 1638 Venice, now Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy
Died	1717 (aged 79) Monte Grande, Chennai (present-day Tamil Nadu, India)
Occupation	Physician, Historian, Geographer, Explorer
Years active	c. Item # The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus (The Folio Society). Among these travelers was the Italian Niccolao Manucci who wrote a three-volume history of the Mogols of India. Item # The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus (The Folio Society). Fondata nel da Raimondo Luraghi, la Società Italiana di Storia Mi- litare (SISM) promuove la storia critica della sicurezza e dei conflitti con. Niccolao Manucci who was a contemporary of Bernier, who otherwise talks freely about the aberrations and love affairs of Jahanara repudiates his charge of. 1660–1717
Notable works	Storia do Mogor (1698)

Niccolao Manucci (19 April 1638 – 1717) was a Venetian writer, a self-taught physician, and traveller, who wrote accounts of the Mughal Empire as a first-hand witness.

His work is considered to be one of the most useful foreign sources for the events that took place in India under Mughal rule. He also documented folk beliefs and customs of the period.^[1]

Biography

Niccolò (or Nicolò) Manucci was born in Venice to Pasqualino Manucci and Rosa née Bellin.

He joined an uncle in Corfu as a teenager and went aboard an English