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Isola di San Lorenzo
| Reference: | S38506 |
| Author | Ferrando BERTELLI |
| Year: | 1567 |
| Zone: | Madagascar |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 180 x 250 mm |
€2,800.00
- New
| Reference: | S38506 |
| Author | Ferrando BERTELLI |
| Year: | 1567 |
| Zone: | Madagascar |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 180 x 250 mm |
€2,800.00
Description
The map of Madagascar published by Ferrando Bertelli is undoubtedly the best representation of the 16th century island. The island was christened SAN LORENZO by the Portuguese navigator Diogo Dias, who first sighted it on 10 August 1500, the day dedicated to S. Lorenzo martyr.
Although Bertelli indicates Giacomo Gastaldi as the author of the work, the literature does not consider it to be original of the Piedmontese cartographer as published posthumously. The data for the compilation of the map are taken from Gastaldi's African wall map (1564); therefore, the work traces its morphology and gastaldine information faithfully.
Ferdinando or Ferrando Bertelli was born in Boarno di Salò, present-day Vobarno, around 1520. Engraver, publisher, chalcographer and print merchant active in Venice under all’insegna di S. Marco in Merzaria. Little is known of his life; he certainly collaborated with Giovanni Francesco Camocio and Paolo Forlani in publishing and selling engravings, maps and city plans. He was probably the older member of a family of engravers whose kinship ties are unknown; many of his maps were reprinted with the signatures of Donato, Andrea, Niccolò and Pietro Bertelli. His most important work is the collection with a bilingual frontispiece, Italian and Latin, Civitatum aliquot insigniorum et locorum, magis munitorum exacta delineatio: cum additione aliquot insularum principalium. Disegni di alcune più illustri città, et fortezze del mondo, con aggionta di alcune Isole principali, con imprint Ferrando Bertelli formis M.D.LXVIII (1568).
Etching with engraving, printed on contemporary laid paper with "Crossbow in circe" watermark (Woodward 203-213), with original added margins, very good conditions.
Bibliografia
Bifolco-Ronca, Cartografia e Topografia Italiana del XVI secolo, p. 463, tav. 107; Meurer (2002): n. 112; Ruge (1904-16): I, n. 67.82; Shirley (2004): I, n. 146; Wieder (1915): p. 29, n. 64; Biasutti (1920): pp. 12-13; Grande (1902): p. 44; Karrow (1993): n. 30/106; Tooley (1939): n. 505.
Literature
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Bifolco-Ronca, Cartografia e Topografia Italiana del XVI secolo, Catalogo ragionato delle opera a stampa (2018), p. 463, tav. 107.
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Ferrando BERTELLI (attivo a Venezia seconda metà del XVI secolo)
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Bertelli family represents the largest group of publishers, engravers, cartographers and merchants of prints of the sixteenth century. Ferrando Bertelli was the most productive, active between 1570, the 1560th, but maps of the last quarter of the century are known by the names of Andrea, Donato, Lucca, Nicholas and Peter. This was mainly active in Padua, where he led a workshop in letterpress and engravings. The earliest records show the asset at the date of 1589 as an engraver of several plates for an edition entitled Diversarum nationum habitus which was published in collaboration with Alciato Alciati. Pietro Bertelli had a library in Padua "the banner of the Angel". At his death the business was inherited by his son Francis. Bertelli was wandering engraver, copperplate engraver and publisher, print dealer active in Venice between 1561 and 1572. We do not have the precise biographical Bertelli.
He teamed with Camocio and the Forlani for the edition and trade cards and plants, they should also become the core business of spreading in the city by Italian and foreign ones, increasing the development of cartography. As a publisher chalcographer emerged from his workshop papers invention of Giacomo Gastaldi, Pirro Ligorio etc.. Although numerous papers of Drawings of the most illustrious cities and fortresses in the world (Venice 1568) bear his signature. Of 1572 is his last edition, the famous islands, harbors, fortresses … Sig.ria subject to Venice, a collection of 88 maps and charts, loose and perhaps already published some of them attributable to the engraving by Martin Rota Sibenik . Later, Ferrando mapss were reprinted by Donato Bertelli (by which we can not determine whether there were family ties) and Donato Rascicotti. Bibliography: Valerio, Cartographers Veneti, p. 149.
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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), p. 463, tav. 107.
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Ferrando BERTELLI (attivo a Venezia seconda metà del XVI secolo)
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Bertelli family represents the largest group of publishers, engravers, cartographers and merchants of prints of the sixteenth century. Ferrando Bertelli was the most productive, active between 1570, the 1560th, but maps of the last quarter of the century are known by the names of Andrea, Donato, Lucca, Nicholas and Peter. This was mainly active in Padua, where he led a workshop in letterpress and engravings. The earliest records show the asset at the date of 1589 as an engraver of several plates for an edition entitled Diversarum nationum habitus which was published in collaboration with Alciato Alciati. Pietro Bertelli had a library in Padua "the banner of the Angel". At his death the business was inherited by his son Francis. Bertelli was wandering engraver, copperplate engraver and publisher, print dealer active in Venice between 1561 and 1572. We do not have the precise biographical Bertelli.
He teamed with Camocio and the Forlani for the edition and trade cards and plants, they should also become the core business of spreading in the city by Italian and foreign ones, increasing the development of cartography. As a publisher chalcographer emerged from his workshop papers invention of Giacomo Gastaldi, Pirro Ligorio etc.. Although numerous papers of Drawings of the most illustrious cities and fortresses in the world (Venice 1568) bear his signature. Of 1572 is his last edition, the famous islands, harbors, fortresses … Sig.ria subject to Venice, a collection of 88 maps and charts, loose and perhaps already published some of them attributable to the engraving by Martin Rota Sibenik . Later, Ferrando mapss were reprinted by Donato Bertelli (by which we can not determine whether there were family ties) and Donato Rascicotti. Bibliography: Valerio, Cartographers Veneti, p. 149.
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