Niccolao Manucci (19 April 1638 – 1717) was a Venetian writer, a self-taught physician, and traveller, who wrote accounts of the Mughal Empire as a first-hand witness.

After several dubious attempts as a medical practitioner with lucky cures effected for some influential patients[2] he seems to have managed to work as a physician in the court of the Mughals.

[3][4] After Bard died at Hodal on 20 June 1656, Manucci moved to Surat and around 1656 he became an artillery man for Dara Shikoh.

[5] Manucci is famous for his work "Storia do Mogor", an account of Mughal history and life.

He would then send home the manuscript for "Storia do Mogor" which was lent to the French historian François Catrou in 1707.

To Manucci's displeasure Catrou published his own embellished version as Histoire générale de l’empire du Mogul in 1715.