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Even before Portugal, Spain, England or France became seriously interested in the Atlantic, the Genoa explorers appeared on the ocean. In 1291 Teodisio Doria, a member of one of the rulers who ruled the city, organizes an expedition. He employs the brothers: Ungolino and Vadino Vivaldi and sends them on a mission to uncover the sea route across the Atlantic to India. The expedition is very well stocked, but it does not return .... disappears along the way, probably somewhere in the Gulf of Guinea. Apparently in the middle of the 15th century one of the Portuguese expeditions found a descendant of survivors on the African coast. Expedition was predicted for 10 years. I'm not even trying to speculate that they would be able to reach them, because they would have had a great luck, and frenetic courage (though Plinius was writing about a ship from Cadiz found in the Red Sea). But what would have been if they had reached, if not to India itself, even to the equator and returned? Have they found that there is no hot zone on the equator? Doria was indebted to this expedition, and when she turned to him, as later Henry the Navigator? Would Genoa be a continuation of the expedition? Would not this accelerate the era of geographic discoveries?
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