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Alvise Cadamosto

1432 - 1488

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Alvise Cadamosto (surname cf. Ca' da Mosto, da Cadamosto, da Ca' da Mosto; also known in Portuguese as Luís Cadamosto; mononymously Cadamosto)(Portuguese pronunciation: [alˈvizɨ kɐðaˈmoʃtu]; Italian pronunciation: [alˈvize ˌkadaˈmosto])(c. 1432 – 16 July 1483) was a Venetian explorer and slave trader, who was hired by the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator and undertook two known journeys to West Africa in 1455 and 1456, accompanied by the Genoese captain Antoniotto Usodimare. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alvise Cadamosto has received more than 124,643 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Alvise Cadamosto is the 121st most popular explorer (down from 119th in 2019), the 1,456th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,464th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Italian Explorer.

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  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Alvise Cadamosto ranks 121 out of 498. Before him are Pánfilo de Narváez, Heinrich Barth, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Himilco, and Hans Staden. After him are Pedro de Mendoza, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Jean Chardin, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Salomon August Andrée, and Afanasy Nikitin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1432, Alvise Cadamosto ranks 6. Before him are Mehmed the Conqueror, Pope Innocent VIII, Afonso V of Portugal, Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia, and Isabel of Coimbra. After him are Ahmad ibn Mājid, Bartolomeo Vivarini, Luigi Pulci, Hōjō Sōun, and Christina Abrahamsdotter. Among people deceased in 1488, Alvise Cadamosto ranks 5. Before him are Andrea del Verrocchio, James III of Scotland, Clarice Orsini, and Francis II, Duke of Brittany. After him are Girolamo Riario, Charles II, Duke of Bourbon, John II, Duke of Bourbon, and Borommatrailokkanat.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alvise Cadamosto ranks 1,456 out of 5,161. Before him are Jacopo Tiepolo (1150), Carlo Blasis (1797), Jacopo Amigoni (1682), Amy Adams (1974), Giuseppe Acerbi (1773), and Ferdinando Carulli (1770). After him are Alberto Zaccheroni (1953), Claudia de' Medici (1604), Drusus Caesar (7), Cima da Conegliano (1459), Simon of Sicily (1093), and Gianpiero Combi (1902).

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Among EXPLORERS In Italy

Among explorers born in Italy, Alvise Cadamosto ranks 10. Before him are John Cabot (1450), Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485), Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778), Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852), Sebastian Cabot (1484), and Bartholomew Columbus (1460). After him are Niccolò de' Conti (1395), Lancelotto Malocello (1270), Alejandro Malaspina (1754), Cristoforo Buondelmonti (1385), Ippolito Rosellini (1800), and Eusebio Kino (1645).

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