Capello, Francesco (1460-1513) (son of Cristoforo di Francesco), of Venice; 1492 elected extraordinary ambassador to France; 1496 sent to the Spanish court at Burgos as an `orator' to negotiate the Spanish–Venetian(–English) alliance against France, and the restoration of the kingdom of Naples to the Aragonesi; 22 Feb. 1496 he wrote to Marino Sanuto that he was in Spain from 27 Jan.; elected as captain at Capodistria; 1496 left Burgos, travelling via Barcelona, Valencia, and Tunisia; 1497 in Venice; see DBI XVIII 775-8; J. E. Law, `Age Qualification and the Venetian Constitution: the Case of the Capello Family', Papers of the British School at Rome, 39 (1971) 125-37. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1460 to 1513. Period: 15th century to 16th century.

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• P-529(2) Ptolemaeus Alexandrinus, Claudius — Geographia (trans. Jacobus Angeli), et al. — Ulm: Johann Reger, for Justus de Albano, 21 July 1486. Folio.

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