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- Collection: Reconstructing Gasparo Balbi's Itinerario
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The Portuguese arrived in Colombo - on the island of Sri Lanka - in the early 16th century. One of their first activities was to build a…
Balbi's first hand account of his travels to southeast Asia in search of gemstones. This includes a particularly in depth description of his time in…
Ceasare de'Federici was a jeweler/merchant/traveler who spent much of his life in southeast Asia in search of gemstones to be sent to his home in the…