Liesena, Insula della Dalmatia...
| Reference: | S22268 |
| Author | Giovanni Francesco CAMOCIO |
| Year: | 1571 |
| Zone: | Hvar |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 210 x 157 mm |
€400.00
| Reference: | S22268 |
| Author | Giovanni Francesco CAMOCIO |
| Year: | 1571 |
| Zone: | Hvar |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 210 x 157 mm |
€400.00
Description
In the lower center, in a box, we read: LIESENA Insula della Dalmatia patria di Demetrio locho delli S.ri Ill.mi Venetiani Insula ricca di terreni et bestiami Qual per longezza tien mill: 60. largezza mill. 25. In Venetia apresso Gio. Franc.o Camotio 1571. Cum privilegio. Orientation provided by a wind rose, with northeast at the top. Without graphic scale.
Map of the island of Hvar, in southern Croatia. The sources of the map are to be found in the Gastaldic models and in Camocio's own map of Dalmatia. It belongs to the corpus of works of the Asolo publisher that flows into the various editions of the collection Isole famose, porti, fortezze e terre maritime.
Camocio, born in the first half of the sixteenth century probably in Asolo, then moved to Venice, where his publishing activity and recorded since 1552, the year in which he obtained from the Doge a privilege of fifteen years for the publication of two volumes of some writings of Greek authors in Latin translation. He was the owner of the bookshop Al segno della Piramide in San Lio in Merceria, where his main activity was the sale of prints and engravings, intaglio reproductions of works of art and maps. The design of a pyramid on four spheres, resting on a pedestal with the motto Prudentia perpetuat and the head of a serpenterappresent his typographical mark. It is assumed that the publisher died around 1575, because after this date, which corresponds to the year of the spread of a serious plague in Venice, there is no more news of his activity. There were many papers of small format, published loose between 1566 and 1574, which came together in the collection Isole famose, porti, fortezze e terre maritime. Camocio's work began as a collection of loose charts, mainly relating to about 1570-71, many of which described Venetian territories in the Balkans and Greece. The production of small maps in the two-year period grew by leaps and bounds; the works were produced largely to document Turkish incursions into the Mediterranean, with attempted attacks, sieges, and battles involving Venetian fortresses on the Balkan coast and the main islands of Greece during the so-called War of Cyprus (1570-73, see Brummet, Mapping the Ottomans, 2015). The earliest issues of the Camocian collection lack the ordinal number, and are often found bound in small-format volumes, lacking the title page. It is not at all uncommon to find the small engravings also in sixteenth-century factitious collections of large format, often printed two per sheet.
Exemple in the first state of two, before the number, printed on contemporary laid paper, trimmed to the copperplate and applied to contemporary support, in excellent condition.
Bibliografia
Bifolco-Ronca (2018), Cartografia e topografia italiana del XVI secolo, p. 1346, tav. 602 I/II; Gallo (1950): p. 97, n. 15; Novak (2005): p. 305, fig. 12; Tolias (2011): n. 0364.
Giovanni Francesco CAMOCIO (Attivo a Venezia tra 1558 - 1575)
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Publisher Venetian, born in the first half of the century. XVI, in an uncertain place, perhaps in Asolo (Treviso) perhaps Slot (Cream). Most likely the first hypothesis because the presence of Camocio family, originally from Piedmont, is widely documented in the town of Treviso. The family Camocio, also belonged the celebrated Hellenist John the Baptist, considered by some historians, relatives and even John's brother Francis. Camocio already resident in Venice, the Doge in 1552 asked for and obtained, together with other shareholders, as editor, the privilege for fifteen years to publish the translation into Latin of the writings of Greek authors. In his book publisher, is also attributed some ten editions in Health (until 1571). The main activity of Camocio, owner of the library "The symbolism of the Pyramid" in San Lio in Haberdashery, was the sale of prints and engravings, intaglio reproductions of important works of art and maps, while his activities as a publisher of books is fragmented and delayed in time. At the "Pyramid" is also sold books on spicy, like the sonnets printed by Domenico Zenoi, which earned him the payment of a fine: 10 ducats to the author and owner of 5 ducats a library. Camocio was one of the largest publishers of maps of the sixteenth century, all produced in a laboratory chalcographic definitely its own. Although it is very difficult to determine precisely how many cards you collected and managed to produce and print, because of the ease with which, over time, they falsified the names of authors, publishers, and dates were changed. However, the presence of his name in many papers and his demands for privilege testify to his busy schedule. Subjects taken by great artists such as Titian and Michelangelo, views of cities, fortresses and maps, for the realization of which were called to work as evidenced by the signatures on the cards, engravers and cartographers of the value of Domenico Zenoi (Zenoni), Donato and Ferdinand (Ferdinand) Bertelli, Paolo Furlani (Forlani) and Giacomo Gastaldi.
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Giovanni Francesco CAMOCIO (Attivo a Venezia tra 1558 - 1575)
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Publisher Venetian, born in the first half of the century. XVI, in an uncertain place, perhaps in Asolo (Treviso) perhaps Slot (Cream). Most likely the first hypothesis because the presence of Camocio family, originally from Piedmont, is widely documented in the town of Treviso. The family Camocio, also belonged the celebrated Hellenist John the Baptist, considered by some historians, relatives and even John's brother Francis. Camocio already resident in Venice, the Doge in 1552 asked for and obtained, together with other shareholders, as editor, the privilege for fifteen years to publish the translation into Latin of the writings of Greek authors. In his book publisher, is also attributed some ten editions in Health (until 1571). The main activity of Camocio, owner of the library "The symbolism of the Pyramid" in San Lio in Haberdashery, was the sale of prints and engravings, intaglio reproductions of important works of art and maps, while his activities as a publisher of books is fragmented and delayed in time. At the "Pyramid" is also sold books on spicy, like the sonnets printed by Domenico Zenoi, which earned him the payment of a fine: 10 ducats to the author and owner of 5 ducats a library. Camocio was one of the largest publishers of maps of the sixteenth century, all produced in a laboratory chalcographic definitely its own. Although it is very difficult to determine precisely how many cards you collected and managed to produce and print, because of the ease with which, over time, they falsified the names of authors, publishers, and dates were changed. However, the presence of his name in many papers and his demands for privilege testify to his busy schedule. Subjects taken by great artists such as Titian and Michelangelo, views of cities, fortresses and maps, for the realization of which were called to work as evidenced by the signatures on the cards, engravers and cartographers of the value of Domenico Zenoi (Zenoni), Donato and Ferdinand (Ferdinand) Bertelli, Paolo Furlani (Forlani) and Giacomo Gastaldi.
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