Europae

Reference: S39308
Author Giovanni ORLANDI
Year: 1609 ca.
Zone: Europe
Printed: Rome
Measures: 495 x 370 mm
€5,000.00

Reference: S39308
Author Giovanni ORLANDI
Year: 1609 ca.
Zone: Europe
Printed: Rome
Measures: 495 x 370 mm
€5,000.00

Description

In the cartouche on the lower right we find the title: EUROPAE La principale delle quatro parti del Mondo si è L’Europa la quale è meravigliosame[n]te acconcia all’habitatione de gli huominj; perche è tutta habitabile; eccettuate alcune poche particelle Settentrionali. Questa avanza di gran lunga le altre partj in clemenza di cielo, di fertilità, di natural temperie, di coppia, di qualità, essendo più amena, e più habitata di ciascuna delle altre, oltre a cio i piu adornata de bellissime città, di castelli, di terre, di fortezze, e abondevole d’ogni sorte di nutrimento de l’huomo. Da questa a[n]chora scaturiscono con grandissima abondanza molte acque, si calde come fresche, et altre, che discacciano diverse malatie, ben è vero che non ha le Spetiarie ne meno copia di cose odorifere, le quai tutte qua sono portata d’Asia e no[n] dimeno è copiosa d’oro d’Argento, e d’altri metalli e di belliss.me vene di pietre, e di tutte le sotterrene cose.

On the lower left are represented the graphic scales: German (150 miles), French (225) and Italian (650) all equal 68 mm. On either side of the graphic scales it reads: Cavata dal Teatro del Ortelio (left) and the editorial imprint Henric.s van Schoel formis Romae 1609 (right). In the cartouche on the left, surmounted by the family coat of arms, we find the dedication: Per Ill.ri Domino Clementi Bartolo Patricio Urbinati Virtutum omniu[m] amatori Tibi adictiss.s Servus Ioannes Orlandus .D. On the right side of the panel is engraved a caption that provides geographic information: La parte Settentrionale e incomodamente habitata, si per il gran freddo, come per la infertilità da esso causata, et anchora per l’incomodo lume del Sole, perché gli habitatori hanno il sole molto discosto da loro Zenite Secondo che sono più ò meno vicini al polo. Nella Isla[n]dia Groenlandia, Finmarchia, Lap[p]onia, et altre; hanno per sino 2 e 3 mesi il maggiore giorno del a[n]no; come ancho ugualm.te il verno la maggior notte, et il verno dura 8 e 9 mesi questa parte non produce vino, ne formento, onde i popoli vivono di pesce, e di pane fatto di pesce secchi e pesti; mescolati con un poco di biada, a loro portata d’altronde.

Map without orientation. Graduation at margins from degree to degree, from 25° to 74° 15' latitude and from 8° 40' to 81° (318° 30' west to 125° east the high margin) longitude.

Etching and engraving, impressed on contemporary laid paper without watermark, with margins, traces of glue on verso and minor oxidation in Tyrrhenian Sea, otherwise in very good condition.

Example from the second state of two, with Hendrick van Schoel's address, the only one known. In fact, no proofs with Giovanni Orlandi's address are known.

“Map of the European continent known only through the examples signed by the Flemish publisher Hendrick van Schoel. Geographically, as explicitly stated in the table next to the graphic scale, the map is Cavata dal Teatro del Ortelius, that is, a faithful derivation of Abraham Ortelius' map contained in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, first published in Antwerp in 1570. More exactly we can consider it as a faithful Roman replica of the map published by Matteo Florimi in Siena in about 1600. As reported above, we are only aware of proofs bearing the imprint Henric.s van Schoel formis Romae 1609. However, there are very clear abrasions and correction in the date that allow us to conjecture the existence of an earlier state edited by Giovanni Orlandi, probably with the date of 1602, usual for his publications” (cf. S. Bifolco - F. Ronca, Cartografia e topografia italiana del XVI secolo, p. 682). However, there is also the possibility that the date 1609 is the original date of the map, as it is documented that Giovanni Orlandi sold his Roman printing house to Hendrick van Schoel before moving to Naples in 1614. The van Schoel edition, therefore, can be dated to about 1614.

The map is extremely rare; only three other institutional examples are known, preserved in London, British Library, in Malta, National Library, and at the Biblioteca Corsiniana in Rome.

Bibliografia

S. Bifolco – F. Ronca, Cartografia e topografia italiana del XVI secolo, p. 682, n. 225, II/II; Ganado (1994): II, n. 139; Valerio (2018): f. 55; Van der Heijden (1992): p. 12.

 

 

Giovanni ORLANDI (Attivo 1590 -1640)

Engraver, printer and print publisher from Bologna. Active in Rome from 1590 until 1613and then in Naples. His shop in Rome was at the Pasquino. He also seems to have been a dealer in drawings. In 1608 he was employing a printer,G.B. Ranieri. He bought existing plates from Johannes Statius, Cherubino Alberti and Nicolas van Aelst. Orlandi acquired plates of Vignola’s Regola delli Cinque Ordini d’Architettura which he published in 1602. Orlandi does not seem to have built up a stock of plates, but having taken from them what he could, sold them on. Van Aelst bought plates from Orlandi, as for example the Twelve Profets and Ten Sibyls of Schiaminossi. In 1609 Orlandi is reported as regretting having sold four small etched plates by Annibale Carracci, after having taken 400 impressions from them. He published work by Tempesta.

Giovanni ORLANDI (Attivo 1590 -1640)

Engraver, printer and print publisher from Bologna. Active in Rome from 1590 until 1613and then in Naples. His shop in Rome was at the Pasquino. He also seems to have been a dealer in drawings. In 1608 he was employing a printer,G.B. Ranieri. He bought existing plates from Johannes Statius, Cherubino Alberti and Nicolas van Aelst. Orlandi acquired plates of Vignola’s Regola delli Cinque Ordini d’Architettura which he published in 1602. Orlandi does not seem to have built up a stock of plates, but having taken from them what he could, sold them on. Van Aelst bought plates from Orlandi, as for example the Twelve Profets and Ten Sibyls of Schiaminossi. In 1609 Orlandi is reported as regretting having sold four small etched plates by Annibale Carracci, after having taken 400 impressions from them. He published work by Tempesta.