Andalò del Negro (

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, 1260 –

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, 1334) was a medieval Italian astronomer and geographer. In 1318 he joined the retinue of

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, who was then in Genoa, and spent the rest of his life attached to the Angevin court in Naples, where he became friends with

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* ''Introductorius ad iudicia astrologie'' * ''Opus praeclarissimum astrolabii'' * ''De operatione quadrantis'' * ''Tractatus spherae'' 13th-century Italian astronomers 1260 births 1334 deaths 14th-century Italian astronomers {{Italy-astronomer-stub