Stephenson:Neal:The Confusion:1:Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri (Neal Stephenson)

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This is a placeholder for a page that we should start about Gemelli Careri. Briefly, he was a Neapolitan lawyer who in the late 1690's circumnavigated the world eastwards and wrote a book about it.

Gemelli Careri's "Giro del Mondo" provides great insight into the workings of the Spanish treasure fleet in the seventeenth century.