Ducatus Carniolae una cum Marcha Windorum

At the top of the map the title: DUCATUS CARNIOLAE UNA CUM MARCHA WINDORUM. In the lower left cartouche: LECTORI Quia Illyricum in diversas regiones partitur in Carinthiam scilicet Carniolam, Marcham Windorum, Liburniam Croatiam, et Dalmatiam quorum cum veriores fines ignorentur. Omnes sub Sclavoniae nomine accipiuntur; in hac tabula o[mn]i cura diligenter adhibita Carniolae et verioris Sclavoniae terminos tibi describendos curavi quae omnes provinciae licet angustis finibus contineantur nobiles tamen, et maximis naturae deiq[ue] optimi benefittjs cumulatae videntur. Vale. Bologninus Zalterius Venetijs MD[CX]IIII. In the lower right cartouche: AL LETTORE Perche L’Illirico e partito in diverse provintie, come sarebbe la Carinthia, la Carniola, la Marcha de Windi, la Liburnia, la Crovatia, et la Dalmatia,le quali non sene sapendo i veri confini hoggi tutte passano sotto’l nome di Schiavonia: io ti ho ne la p[rese]nti tavola fatto descrivere con ogni diligenza et verita li siti de la Carniola, et de la vera Schiavonia. Provincie veramte picciole ma nobili et ornate d’infiniti donj di Dio et della benigna natura. 

The map of Carniola by Zaltieri is derived from the Ducatus Carniolae et Histria una cum Marcha Windorum included in the Typi Chorographici Austriae by Wolfang Lazius, a collection of twelve oval contour maps engraved by Michael Zimmerman and published in Vienna in 1561. Zaltieri's map does not maintain the oval outline of the model, and is more neglected in the drawing. Compared to the original of Lazius are omitted some news and geo-cartographic data. The work presents, however, numerous additions in the part of Istria, where the nomenclature, unlike the rest of the map, and in Italian and seems to be based on the works of Giacomo Gastaldi or more likely, as Lago argues, on the map of the Istrian peninsula that Camocio published in the same year.

The map was reprinted by Nicolo Valegio; next to the publisher's imprint, added in the cartouche at lower left in place of that of Zaltieri, we find the date clumsily corrected. Lago interprets it as 1594 or 1598; in our opinion, based on the activity of the publisher, the date could read 1614.

Etching and engraving, printed on contemporary laid paper, with margins, in excellent condition. Magnificent proof of the second state, with Valegio's address and the date corrected to 1614.

Very rare work.

Bibliografia

Bifolco-Ronca, Cartografia e topografia italiana del XVI secolo, 2018, pp. 1182-1183, tav. 499; Almagia (1927): n. 46; Almagia (1948): pp. 44-45; Castellani (1876): n. 31; Dzikowski (1940): n. 40; Gallo (1954): C, n. 56; Kraus (1972): n. 39; Meurer (2002): n. 34; Ruge (1904-16): IV, n. 76; Shirley (2004): I, n. 67 e p. 393, n. 27; Valerio (2018): f. 47; Tavernari (2014): n. 35; Wieder (1915): p. 8, n. 48; Almagia (1929): tav. XXXIV; Cartografia Rara (1986): n. 26; Cucagna (1964): pp. 134-136; Lago-Rossit (1981): tav. XLVII; Lago-Rossit (1988): tav. XLII; Lago (1989): n. 135; Lago (2002): p. 556, fig. 542; Marinelli (1881): n. 489; Tooley (1939): n. 126.