title: [Giovanni Battista Bonagente, a Venetian physician in Cairo].
abstract: Giovanni Battista Bonagente from Vicenza was a physician attached to the Venetian consulate in Cairo from 1634 to 1641. Though he did not leave a diary, he partially narrated his Egyptian experience in the letters he sent to his uncle, Giambattista Benasutti. The unpublished correspondance between Bonagente and Benasutti is investigated by the present paper.
authors.affiliation: International School of Neurological Sciences, Venice, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vanzan
mesh_terms: D004534:Egypt; D049670:History, 17th Century; D007391:International Cooperation / Q000266:history; D007558:Italy; D014195:Travel / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Viaggiatori Barocchi: Giovanni Battista Bonagente, un medico veneto al Cairo.