Al molto magco. ... o la carta del navigare ... / del s. Giacomo Home[m] portughese ... ; d.v. ... Paolo Furlani, Veronese ; Claudij Ducheti formis.
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- 1569
- Description
Shows Mediterranean Sea region, Europe, Black Sea and northern Africa. Includes dedication text. First copper plate engraved and printed portolan map.
This portolan chart by the prominent Italian cartographer and engraver Paolo Forlani is the first sea chart engraved and printed on copperplate. Forlani was born in Verona but flourished in Venice in 1560–74. Most of his maps appeared under the imprint of other publishers, including Giovanni Francesco Camocio, Ferrando Bertelli, and Bolognini Zaltieri in Venice and Claudio Duchetti in Rome―members of the Lafreri school of cartography, some of whose printing plates were still used well into the 17th century. Nominally a map of the Mediterranean Sea region, the map extends as far west as Ireland and north to much of Russia and the Black Sea (labeled as Mare Maggiore). The word portolan derives from portolano, meaning “related to ports or harbors.” Portolan charts were often simple coastal outlines used in navigation with few, if any, inland features shown. The straight lines crisscrossing the chart represent the 32 directions, or headings, of the mariner’s compass from a given point. Coa
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- Creator
Homem, Diogo
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Publisher
- Forlani, Paolo
- Subjects
- Nautical charts--Mediterranean Region--Early works to 1800
Mediterranean Region--Maps--Early works to 1800 - Location
- Europe; Africa;
France; Hungary; Israel; Poland; Russia; Slovakia; Turkey; United Kingdom; Italy; Spain; Germany; Belgium; Greece; Portugal - Type
- image
- Language
- Italian
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Homem, Diogo. Al molto magco. ... o la carta del navigare ... / del s. Giacomo Home[m] portughese ... ; d.v. ... Paolo Furlani, Veronese ; Claudij Ducheti formis.. 1569. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/855. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Homem, Diogo, (1569) Al molto magco. ... o la carta del navigare ... / del s. Giacomo Home[m] portughese ... ; d.v. ... Paolo Furlani, Veronese ; Claudij Ducheti formis.. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/855
- MLA citation style
- Homem, Diogo. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/855>.