He is known for being shipwrecked at Røst in northern Norway during the winter of 1432, and subsequently returning to Venice, where he wrote a report of his travels for the Venetian Senate.
[1][2][3] Bound for Flanders from Chania on Crete in 1431, the merchant ship Querina encountered a fierce storm at the western approach to the English Channel.
Facing a winter storm and cold for weeks, and lacking food and water, several more men died of starvation and fatigue.
Eventually, they were discovered by chance by a fisherman and his sons, who had made a trip to the island searching for some lost cattle.
One was written by Querini himself, another by two officers who served on board the ship and also survived, Cristoforo Fioravante and Nicolò de Michiel.
[3] The story was also translated into Tuscan dialect and published by Giovanni Battista Ramusio in a printed version in a collection of travels between 1550 and 1559.