Pedani, Maria Pia

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Gritti, Alvise

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Alvise Gritti (Italian Luigi or Lodovico , Hungarian Lájos , Ottoman Luise ) was born in Pera (Istanbul) in 1480 and died in Medgyes (now Mediaş, in Romania) on 29 September 1534. The son of a Greek woman and the Venetian nobleman Andrea, he went to Venice in 1502 to improve his…

Fondaco

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Fondaco is an Italian word that derives, through Arabic, from the classical Greek pandokheion , “inn” or “hostelry” (literally, accepting all comers). In Arabic texts the word funduq appeared by the third/ninth century and was also used as a synonym of khān , even as its meaning…