Italian navigator from Genoa
1300 CE to 1365 CE
Nicoloso da Recco is a fourteenth-century Italian navigator from Genoa, who visits the Canary Islands in 1341 on behalf of Afonso IV of Portugal.
He is credited with providing the first reliable account of the language used by the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands, the Guanches.
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