E-Library: Abkhazia and Italian city-states of the XIII-XV centuries, by Viacheslav Chirikba
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Abkhazia and Italian city-states of the XIII-XV centuries, by Viacheslav Chirikba
St Petersburg 2020 (The full book in PDF can be downloaded from the page)
The monograph discusses Italo-Abkhazian relations during the period of dynamic trade-expansion of Italian city-states, primarily Genoa, on the Caucasian Black Sea coast, which is one of the important and still insufficiently studied topics in the history of mediaeval Abkhazia (13th–15th centuries). The essays address the issues related to: the relationship of the Italian maritime republics with Abkhazia in the 13th–15th centuries; the organisation of Italian trading activities in Abkhazia, primarily in the central city of the country – Savastopoli (Sukhum).
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The Mystery of Caterina. Who Was the Mother of Leonardo da Vinci? by Viacheslav Chirikba
St Petersburg 2018 (The full book in PDF can be downloaded from the page)
Based on the analysis of a number of facts and evidence, Viachelav Chirikba puts forward a hypothesis that the artist’s mother could be an Abkhazian or Circassian slave woman brought to Italy from the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus.
His hypothesis in this book on da Vinci's Mother was recently confirmed by Italian Archives.
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