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Belzo`ni, Giovanni Battista
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A famous traveller and explorer in Egypt, born at Padua, of poor parents; a man of great stature; figured as an athlete in Astley's Circus, London, and elsewhere, first of all in London streets; applied himself to the study of mechanics; visited Egypt as a mechanician and engineer at the instance of Mehemet Ali; commenced explorations among its antiquities, sent to the British Museum trophies of his achievements; published a narrative of his operations; opened an exhibition of his collection of antiquities in London and Paris; undertook a journey to Timbuctoo, was attacked with dysentery, and died at Gato (1778-1823).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Belzo`ni, Giovanni Battista'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/belzoni-giovanni-battista.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Belzo`ni, Giovanni Battista'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/belzoni-giovanni-battista.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.