Muda (convoy)

A muda was the convoy of merchant ships that usually left Venice in spring and came back in autumn.

Course of the 1463 muda of Flanders

In the earliest times, the mudas only visited ports in the Levant. In later years, the ships sailed also to European ports.

Along with merchants and goods, the mudas brought knowledge, new ideas and new cultures to Venice.

Sources

Doumerc, Bernard (1996). "Il dominio del mare". In Alberto Tenenti; Ugo Tucci (eds.). Storia di Venezia. Dalle origini alla caduta della Serenissima. Vol. IV: Il Rinascimento. Politica e cultura (in Italian). Rome: Enciclopedia Italiana. pp. 113–180. OCLC 644711024.

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