Career
Circa 1500, Florentine merchants were the most prominent foreign group active in Lisbon"s economic life and played an important role in the financing of Portuguese maritime expeditions in search of new products and markets. Sernigi is remembered today as the author of letters in which he reported news of the overseas exploration to his relatives and associates back in Florence, and which became some of the most detailed accounts of the Portuguese expeditions of the period. In 1510, he personally commanded a ship going to Malacca.
