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Venetian Sailing Directions

Venetian Sailing Directions. Drawings of zodiacs, hands, and divisions of time in Nicolo Stolfo. [Early Venetian Sailing Directions in the Mediterranean Sea] Manuscript. [Venice,] August 1499. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

Christopher Columbus

   Source: Portrait by the Florentine painter Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (1483-1561). National Geographic, Vol. 148, No. 5 (November 1975), pp. 618-619.