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Is This The Earliest Drawing Of Venice?

VISUAL Posted: January 14, 2020 11:28 am

Friar Niccolò da Poggibonsi took notes on gesso tablets while he traveled, and when he returned to Venice in 1350, wrote down his full firsthand account. The oldest manuscript of the work and its illustrations, titled Libro d’Oltramare, now resides in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence. – Smithsonian

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