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Sorleone set sail to try and “discover” what had happened to the two broth-
ers. But no more was heard of Ugolino’s son, either.
Dante idealised Vivaldi in his Ulysses, engulfed by the waves when he
had already caught sight of the mysterious land of the western hemisphere,
home to the virtue and knowledge he was greedy for; one hundred and
fifty years later, Antoniotto Usodimare would meet a white man among the
black men of Senegal, who would claim to be the last descendant of the
shipwreck of the Vivaldi expedition and who would tell him other “strange
things” (Carlo Brizzolari, Storia di Genova sul mare [History of Genoa on
the Sea], Vallecchi, 1970, page 65).

Ptolemy’s World Map.
Year 1478.