Mappa dell’Emisfero Orientale
| Reference: | S31354 |
| Author | Domenico ZENOI |
| Year: | 1570 ca. |
| Zone: | Eastern Hemisphere |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 195 x 175 mm |
€2,500.00
| Reference: | S31354 |
| Author | Domenico ZENOI |
| Year: | 1570 ca. |
| Zone: | Eastern Hemisphere |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 195 x 175 mm |
€2,500.00
Description
Rare map showing Europe, Africa and the eastern coast of North America. Exemple in the third, final, state, with the cartouche in the lower left empty and the wind lines deleted.
The first state of the plate has the empty cartouche The work is signed in the second state by Orazio Bertelli, as an engraver of the plate, and the dedication to Francesco Scaridino includes the date and signature of the author and publisher Domenico Zenoi. This was the third presents again the cartouche white.
The map, rare, can occasionally be included in the collections of small format published by Bertelli and Camocio.
Meurer describes only two states of the work, ignoring further this latest variant.
Literature
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Gallo (1950): p. 97, n. 2; Van der Heijden (1992): n. 22a; Meurer, The Strabo Illustratus Atlas, p. 183, 168; Almagià, Monumenta Cartographica Vaticana II, p.116-117, nota 9; Tavernari (2014): n. 3.
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Domenico ZENOI (Attivo tra il 1559 e il 1574)
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Engraver, goldsmith and publisher. Active in Venice and Padua. Fifteen-year privilege granted by the Senate, 5 december 1566 for devotional prints, portraits and maps that he intended to publish. A license was issued to Zenoi on the same day by chiefs of the Council of X. A month later, 11 January 1567, a second license with stipulation that Zenoi required to show each print to the Esecutori contro la bestemmia so that they could check there was no obscenity. 9 september 1568 fined, with Camocio, by the Esecutori for obscene prints and sonnets found in Camocio's shop. His plates were published by, among others, Donato e Ferrando Bertelli, Bolognino Zaltieri, Pierre de Huchin.
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Literature
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Gallo (1950): p. 97, n. 2; Van der Heijden (1992): n. 22a; Meurer, The Strabo Illustratus Atlas, p. 183, 168; Almagià, Monumenta Cartographica Vaticana II, p.116-117, nota 9; Tavernari (2014): n. 3.
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Domenico ZENOI (Attivo tra il 1559 e il 1574)
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Engraver, goldsmith and publisher. Active in Venice and Padua. Fifteen-year privilege granted by the Senate, 5 december 1566 for devotional prints, portraits and maps that he intended to publish. A license was issued to Zenoi on the same day by chiefs of the Council of X. A month later, 11 January 1567, a second license with stipulation that Zenoi required to show each print to the Esecutori contro la bestemmia so that they could check there was no obscenity. 9 september 1568 fined, with Camocio, by the Esecutori for obscene prints and sonnets found in Camocio's shop. His plates were published by, among others, Donato e Ferrando Bertelli, Bolognino Zaltieri, Pierre de Huchin.
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