Person
Antonio de Noli
Genoese nobleman and navigator; colonial governor for Portugal
Antonio de Noli (born 1415 or possibly 1419) is a fifteenth-century Genoese nobleman and navigator, and the first governor of the earliest European overseas colony in Subsaharan Africa.
He discovers some of the Cape Verde islands on behalf of Henry the Navigator and he is made first Governor of Cape Verde by King Afonso V. In most history or geographic books, including ancient chronicles, or encyclopedia, he is referred as Antonio de Noli, as well as in official information by the Government of Cape Verde[ or in Cape Verde history articles or references.
In Italy, he is known also as Antonio da Nolior sometimes referred as Antoniotto Usodimare.