Alberto Fortis

Alberto Fortis }} (1741–1803) was an Italian writer, naturalist and cartographer, citizen of Republic of Venice.
His real name was Giovanni Battista Fortis (his religious name was Alberto }}) and he was born in Padua on either 9 or 11 of November 1741. He journeyed extensively in Venetian Dalmatia. His best known work is Viaggio in Dalmazia ("Journey to Dalmatia"), originally published in 1774 and first published in London in 1778.
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