Anthony Bonvisi

Anthony Bonvisi (1470s–1558) was an Italian emigrant to England. He was a merchant who improved spinning methods in Devon. He was also a correspondent of St. Thomas More.[1][2]

References
  1. Schiavo, Giovanni. The Italians in America Before the Civil War. New York: The Vigo Press, 1934. p. 17.
  2. Martin, Charles Trice (1886). Dictionary of National Biography . New York: MacMillan & Co. pp. 36–6 – via Wikisource.
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