Historia rerum ubique gestarum (Asia)

Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pius II), Cosmography of Asia

Humanist description of Asia from Ptolemy, Strabo and the travellers (including Conti), with chapters on India and its peoples; Columbus' annotated copy survives.

Language

Latin

Date

1458–1461 CE

Author

Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini

Text

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