(Mediterraneo Orientale)
| Reference: | S30225 |
| Author | Paolo FORLANI |
| Year: | 1571 |
| Zone: | Eastern Mediterranean |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 426 x 332 mm |
€23,000.00
| Reference: | S30225 |
| Author | Paolo FORLANI |
| Year: | 1571 |
| Zone: | Eastern Mediterranean |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 426 x 332 mm |
€23,000.00
Description
THE MAP CELEBRATING THE VICTORY AGAINST THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
A very important and rare map of the eastern Mediterranean by Paolo Forlani, printed in Venice in 1571 by the publisher Simon Pinargenti.
Etching with engraving, printed on contemporary paper with unusual wide margins, perfect conditions.
Example of the second state of two, with the scale added at the bottom edge (cf. Bifolco-Ronca, p. 718, that listed only 2 copy known of this state).
The map is dedicated to Lodovico del Bene and is very accurate in describing the seaports and highlights, through the broken lines, the ports that could be used for attacks against the fleet of the Ottoman Empire. The map is in fact printed in 1571, to celebrate the victory over the Turks in the naval battle of Lepanto.
The famous naval battle took place in front of Lepanto, at the western end of the Gulf of Patras and saw involved the Turkish fleet and that of the Holy Alliance. The victory against the Turkish armies they stopped the advance in Europe, protecting Rome from invasion. The event at the time it was really important and sensational, arousing the interest of many artists. There are different interpretations of the subject in Venice, due to all merchants, engravers and cartographers such as Nelli, Zenoi, Bertelli, Rota and Camocio.
Orientation provided by a compass rose in the Tyrrhenian Sea , graphic scale of 100 miles Italic equal to mm. 21.
Inscriptions. Upper right cartouche:
Al Molto Mag.co et mio Sig.or il Sig.or Lodouico del Bene, del Sig.or Aluise Nob: Veronese. / SVBITO ch'io intesi, che V.S. era tornata salua in Venetia; feci risolutione di farle dono di q[u]esta pñte mia fatica: / non perche io la reputi eguale a' suoi molti meriti, et al suo singolar ualore, mostrato in questa felicci.a giornata na= / uale co[n]tra i Turchi: ma p[o]che io no[n] ha altro mezo migliore da discoprirle l'allegrezza, c'ho se[n]tita de gli honori, che .V.S. / s'ha gloriosame[n]te acquistati, et dello sple[n]dore, c'ha accresciuto alla nobilissima famiglia sua, et all'Ill. patria, co[n] far / cosi alti et honorati seruitij a q[ue]sta immortal Republica. La p[?]go ad accettar benigname[n]te q[ue]sta mia Carta: percioche / guarda[n]dola V.S. alcuno uolta, et troua[n]doci i luoghi, doue .ha essercitato il suo ualore, et doue la Christianita tutta ha ri= / sceuuto p[er] gra[tia]: di Dio, con gra[ nde] uittoria, ne riceuerà qualche diletto: et cosi raccoma[n]da[n]do meli, prego il S.re DIO, che / Ie facilitati la Strada, da acquisitar quella immortalita che co[n] ta[n]ta sua gloria si procure co[n] la uirtu sua. [erasure] / DESCRITTIONE Particolare di tutti i luoghi cosi maritime, come fra terra ch[e] so[no] da' Venetia al mar maggiore, comp[re]nde[n]doci il Go= / lfo, Corfu, la Cefalonia, il Za[n]te, tutta la Morea, l'jsola di Ca[n]dia, et di Negropo[n]te, l'Arcipelago, il Golfo di Saloincco, lo stretto / di Costa[n]tatinopoli, fino al mar maggiore: et poi tutta la Caramania, l'isola di Cipro, la Soria, l'Egitto, la costa di Bar= beria, fino alle Gerbe, co[n] l'isola di Malte, et di Sicilia; et fra terra tutto il corso del Danubio. / Di Venetia a XXII Dicembre M.D.LXXI. Paolo Forlani Veronese.
In the small cartouche in the middle:
Da queste linee si trouano facilmente i luoghi prin= / cipali, doue possa andar l'armata Christia= / na a danno de' Turchi. / Simon Pinargenti excudebat.
A magnific example of this very rare and important map.
Bibliografia
Bifolco-Ronca, Cartografia e Topografia Italiana del XVI secolo, Catalogo ragionato delle opera a stampa (2018), pp. 718-719, tav. 241, II/II; Borroni Salvadori (1980): n. 101; Shirley (2004): I, n. 113; Sotheby’s (2000): n. 331; Cartografia Rara (1986): n. 43; Lago (2002): p. 450, fig. 451; Mostra Bergamo (2016): n. 29; Szathmáry (1987): n. 74; Tooley (1939): n. 38; Valerio (2008): p. 44; Woodward (1990): n. 95; Woodward (1992): n. 57; Zacharakis (1992): n. 1031; Zacharakis (2009): n. 1534.
Literature
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Bifolco-Ronca, Cartografia e Topografia Italiana del XVI secolo, Catalogo ragionato delle opera a stampa (2018), pp. 718-719, tav. 241, II/II.
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Paolo FORLANI (Attivo a Venezia seconda metà del XVI secolo)
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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.
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Literature
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Bifolco-Ronca, Cartografia e Topografia Italiana del XVI secolo, Catalogo ragionato delle opera a stampa (2018), pp. 718-719, tav. 241, II/II.
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Paolo FORLANI (Attivo a Venezia seconda metà del XVI secolo)
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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.
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