Antonio Zeno

Antonio Zeno (c. 1330 – c. 1403) was a Venetian nobleman, brother of the navigator Nicolò Zeno and of Admiral Carlo Zeno. His fame rests on the Zeno narrative.

In 1558 their descendant Nicolò Zeno the Younger published a map and letters claiming that in the 1390s Antonio and Nicolò sailed the North Atlantic at the bidding of a prince named Zichmni. The map was adopted by Gerardus Mercator, and modern scholarship generally regards the documents as a sixteenth-century forgery.