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Title	Meditteranean Sea Region 1569
Full Title	Al molto magco.... o la carta del navigare... / del s. Giacomo Home[m] portughese... ; d.v.... Paolo Furlani, Veronese ; Claudij Ducheti formis.
Creator	Homem, Diogo
Contributors	Forlani, Paolo Duchetti, Claudio
Publication Date	1569
Map Publisher	Forlani, Paolo
Subject	Nautical charts--Mediterranean Region--Early works to 1800 Mediterranean Region--Maps--Early works to 1800
Continent	Europe Africa
Country	France Hungary Israel Poland Russia Slovakia Turkey United Kingdom Italy Spain Germany Belgium Greece Portugal
Notes	Shows Mediterranean Sea region, Europe, Black Sea and northern Africa. Includes dedication text. First copper plate engraved and printed portolan map.
Essay Description of Item	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. Coastal place-names are written on the land side of the coastline so as not to obscure possible maritime dangers. Areas of political control are indicated by different colors along the coastline and in some cases by shading of the interior.
Type	image
Original Collection	American Geographical Society Library - Maps
Original Item Description	1 map : col. ; 50 x 84 cm.
Original Item ID	(AGS) (RARE) 715 A-1569
Language	it
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Provenance	Purchased from F. Muller, Amsterdam, March 12, 1942 by the AGS of NY.
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital ID	am004599
Digital Format	image/tif; image/jp2
Date.Digitized	2007-01-01
Digital Collection	American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

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