IL VERO RITRATTO DI NETTUNO al presente occupato da gl’inperiali.

Reference: S9679
Author Paolo FORLANI
Year: 1569
Zone: Nettuno
Printed: Venice
Measures: 290 x 215 mm
€400.00

Reference: S9679
Author Paolo FORLANI
Year: 1569
Zone: Nettuno
Printed: Venice
Measures: 290 x 215 mm
€400.00

Description

In alto al centro in un riquadro IL VERO RITRATTO DI NETTUNO al presente occupato da gl’inperiali. Orientazione nei quattro lati al centro con il nome dei venti TRAMONTANA, MEZZO DI, LEVANTE, PONENTE, il nord in basso. Carta priva di scala grafica e graduazione ai margini.

Carta anonima, priva di data ed inidcazioni editoriali. Si tratta di una fedele riduzione della carta attribuita ad Antonio Lafreri, e realizzata in occasione della Guerra del Sale.

Sebbene non risulta inserita in nessuna delle tre copie conosciute del Il primo libro delle citta et fortezze principali del mondo, edito a Venezia da Paolo Forlani nel 1567, la mappa può essere ricondotta per motivi stilistici alla tipografia di Paolo Forlani.

La lastra fu acquisita da Bolognino Zaltieri che la ristampa, inalterata, per le due diverse edizioni del De’ disegni delle più illustri citta, et fortezze del mondo di Giulio Ballino, entrambe pubblicate a Venezia nel 1569. Nel testo al verso dell’edizione di Zaltieri si trova l’iscrizione: L’anno poi 1556 l’esercito spagnuolo guidato dal Duca d’Alba general Carlo V Imperatore contra le genti della Chiesa e Francesi, prese questo castello giudicatolo luogo molto accomodato alla guerra, essendo terra marittima e de’ soldati per mare.

L'opera non ha nessuna variante di lastra, ma le tirature dello Zaltieri (1569) presentano un testo descrittivo al verso.

Esemplare dell'edizione Zaltieri del 1569.

Paolo Forlani, a native of Verona, opened his own chalcographic workshop in Venice, Al segno del pozzo, in 1560, as reflected in some of his works. From 1566 he was active in Merzaria al segno della colonna and from 1569 in Merzaria al segno della nave. Forlani had business relationships with the major publishers of cartographic material of the time, among them Antonio Lafreri, the Bertelli family, and others. In addition to being a talented engraver, he was also quick to execute, a quality that enabled him to work for different publishers at the same time, and to execute a large amount of work. Woodward attributes about one hundred works to Forlani, most of which, however, are unsigned. Between 1560 and 1567, Forlani collaborated with Ferrando Bertelli, for whom he engraved about ten copperplates, with Camocio, Bolognino Zaltieri, and with Claudio Duchetti, for whom he engraved some maps. For his professional activity, however, the collaboration with Giacomo Gastaldi, for whom he engraved thirteen maps, was very important and valuable. In 1567 Forlani published and traded his work Il primo libro delle città et fortezze principali del mondo, whose branches later passed to Bolognino Zaltieri. It is likely that Forlani died during the plague that spread through Venice from 1575.

Bellissima prova, impressa su carta vergata coeva, in ottimo stato di conservazione.

Bibliografia

S. Bifolco, F. Ronca, Cartografia e topografia italiana del XVI secolo, tav. 1130; S. Bifolco, Città e Fortezze Principali del Mondo. Le prime raccolte italiane di cartografia urbana e gli isolari del XVI secolo, in “Cartografia e topografia italiana del XVI secolo”, pp. 137-152; Albert Ganado, The Forlani-Zenoi town books of 1567. A description and analysis, in “Florilegium Cartographicum. Beiträge zur Kartographiegeschichte und Vedutenkunde des 16. Bis 18. Jahrhunderts”, a cura di Peter H. Köhl e Peter H. Meurer, Lipsia, 1993, pp. 21-34; Béla Szalai, (adattamento e traduzione inglese Ivan Matković), The Representation of the Hungarian Towns in Domenico Zenoi’s and Paolo Forlani’s Cartographic Work, in “Kartografija i geoinformacije”, Vol.11 (Budapest, No.18 December 2012), pp. 4-37; Vladimiro Valerio, Piante e vedute di Napoli dal 1486 al 1599. L’origine della iconografia urbana europea, Napoli, 1998; p. 40, n. 32 e p. 47, n. 16; David Woodward, Paolo Forlani: Compiler, Engraver, Printer, or Publisher? in Imago Mundi, Vol. 44 (Londra, 1992), pp. 45-64.

Paolo FORLANI (Attivo a Venezia seconda metà del XVI secolo)

Paolo Forlani, a native of Verona, opened his own chalcographic workshop in Venice, Al segno del pozzo, in 1560, as reflected in some of his works. From 1566 he was active in Merzaria al segno della colonna and from 1569 in Merzaria al segno della nave. Forlani had business relationships with the major publishers of cartographic material of the time, among them Antonio Lafreri, the Bertelli family, and others. In addition to being a talented engraver, he was also quick to execute, a quality that enabled him to work for different publishers at the same time, and to execute a large amount of work. Woodward attributes about one hundred works to Forlani, most of which, however, are unsigned. Between 1560 and 1567, Forlani collaborated with Ferrando Bertelli, for whom he engraved about ten copperplates, with Camocio, Bolognino Zaltieri, and with Claudio Duchetti, for whom he engraved some maps. For his professional activity, however, the collaboration with Giacomo Gastaldi, for whom he engraved thirteen maps, was very important and valuable. In 1567 Forlani published and traded his work Il primo libro delle città et fortezze principali del mondo, whose branches later passed to Bolognino Zaltieri. It is likely that Forlani died during the plague that spread through Venice from 1575.

Paolo FORLANI (Attivo a Venezia seconda metà del XVI secolo)

Paolo Forlani, a native of Verona, opened his own chalcographic workshop in Venice, Al segno del pozzo, in 1560, as reflected in some of his works. From 1566 he was active in Merzaria al segno della colonna and from 1569 in Merzaria al segno della nave. Forlani had business relationships with the major publishers of cartographic material of the time, among them Antonio Lafreri, the Bertelli family, and others. In addition to being a talented engraver, he was also quick to execute, a quality that enabled him to work for different publishers at the same time, and to execute a large amount of work. Woodward attributes about one hundred works to Forlani, most of which, however, are unsigned. Between 1560 and 1567, Forlani collaborated with Ferrando Bertelli, for whom he engraved about ten copperplates, with Camocio, Bolognino Zaltieri, and with Claudio Duchetti, for whom he engraved some maps. For his professional activity, however, the collaboration with Giacomo Gastaldi, for whom he engraved thirteen maps, was very important and valuable. In 1567 Forlani published and traded his work Il primo libro delle città et fortezze principali del mondo, whose branches later passed to Bolognino Zaltieri. It is likely that Forlani died during the plague that spread through Venice from 1575.