Gallia Nova Tabula
| Reference: | s13365 |
| Author | Giacomo GASTALDI |
| Year: | 1548 ca. |
| Zone: | France |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 180 x 135 mm |
€325.00
| Reference: | s13365 |
| Author | Giacomo GASTALDI |
| Year: | 1548 ca. |
| Zone: | France |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 180 x 135 mm |
€325.00
Description
Tratta dalla "Geografia"di Claudio Tolomeo, prima edizione "tascabile" curata da Giacomo Gastaldi e stampata a Venezia da Nicolò Bascarini per Giovanni Battista Pedrezano nel 1548.
"L’edizione veneta del 1548, curata e aggiornata in formato “tascabile” da Giacomo Gastaldi, uno dei principali cartografi del XVI secolo, registra la prima traduzione del testo (fatta eccezione per la versione toscana in terza rima composta dal Berlinghieri) dal latino al volgare: questo “piccolo” Tolomeo, rifacentesi ancora in parte al lavoro del Münster e comprendente 60 carte (26 tolemaiche e 34 moderne), rappresentava all’epoca il più completo e aggiornato atlante del mondo. Gastaldi per primo aggiunse cinque mappe regionali del continente americano, fra le quali anche una carta separata del Sud America.
Una novità concerneva anche la disposizione delle carte: mentre nei precedenti Tolomei cinquecenteschi le carte moderne erano collocate separatamente dopo quelle tolemaiche, nell’edizione del 1548 ogni carta moderna è inserita nelle serie tolemaiche dopo la corrispondente o la più vicina mappa antica. Le tavole stesse, a dispetto della loro piccola dimensione, sono importanti anche sotto il profilo storico, poiché le carte di tutte le successive edizioni italiane cinquecentesche di Tolomeo derivano sostanzialmente da queste" [cfr. Fabio Fatichenti, Specificità, fortuna e auctoritas del canone tolemaico p. 70, in Bifolco-Ronca, Cartografia e Topografia Italiana del XVI secolo, Catalogo ragionato delle opera a stampa (2018)].
Incisione in rame in ottimo stato di conservazione. Rara.
Literature
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Fabio Fatichenti, Specificità, fortuna e auctoritas del canone tolemaico p. 70, in Bifolco-Ronca, Cartografia e Topografia Italiana del XVI secolo, Catalogo ragionato delle opera a stampa p. 108.
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Giacomo GASTALDI (1500 circa – 1565 circa)
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Giacomo Gastaldi was born, according to the predicate that accompanies his signature on the card in Spain in 1544, Villafranca Piemonte (today the province of Turin), in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Although counted among the greatest cartographers of the sixteenth century, the events of his life are unknown until 1539 when his name appears for the first time in a grant of privilege of printing a "perpetual almanac," now lost. In the early '40s, was to be known in learned circles because he began to work on a series of papers, first published separately and then merged, in the Italian edition of Ptolemy's Geography (Venice 1548) updated by S. Münster. The volume consisted of 60 cards, 26 of which were the traditional Ptolemaic and 34 new made by Gastaldi. Soon his fame spread as a cartographer in Italy and Europe: cosmographer became the official of the Venetian Republic. The Council of Ten, on behalf of whom had a frescoed hall of the Ducal Palace with the cards in Asia and Africa, was referring to him as: Master James of Piedmont our Cosmographer. Remains unchallenged as its contribution to the Italian maps: a map of Italy printed in 1561, when for the first time the profile of the coastline is made by referring to charts much more precise than those of previous centuries. He had the great merit of use and disclose in cartography the etching technique, which allowed all'incisore to make drawings more accurate and crisp, allowing easier viewing Almost all of them before cartographers had instead used the technique of woodcut, much less precise. He was awarded one hundred and nine maps, which represented virtually the entire world. Considering it was incorrect for a long time a mere disciple of Ramusio, and to both of you must exit from tolemaismo geography, Gastaldi was rediscovered by geography after the Italian unit. At the end of the nineteenth century p.e. Nordenskjöld placed him at the pinnacle of European maps and fifty years after the sixteenth Almagia still its greatest scholar, he rebuilt a good biography.
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Literature
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Fabio Fatichenti, Specificità, fortuna e auctoritas del canone tolemaico p. 70, in Bifolco-Ronca, Cartografia e Topografia Italiana del XVI secolo, Catalogo ragionato delle opera a stampa p. 108.
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Giacomo GASTALDI (1500 circa – 1565 circa)
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Giacomo Gastaldi was born, according to the predicate that accompanies his signature on the card in Spain in 1544, Villafranca Piemonte (today the province of Turin), in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Although counted among the greatest cartographers of the sixteenth century, the events of his life are unknown until 1539 when his name appears for the first time in a grant of privilege of printing a "perpetual almanac," now lost. In the early '40s, was to be known in learned circles because he began to work on a series of papers, first published separately and then merged, in the Italian edition of Ptolemy's Geography (Venice 1548) updated by S. Münster. The volume consisted of 60 cards, 26 of which were the traditional Ptolemaic and 34 new made by Gastaldi. Soon his fame spread as a cartographer in Italy and Europe: cosmographer became the official of the Venetian Republic. The Council of Ten, on behalf of whom had a frescoed hall of the Ducal Palace with the cards in Asia and Africa, was referring to him as: Master James of Piedmont our Cosmographer. Remains unchallenged as its contribution to the Italian maps: a map of Italy printed in 1561, when for the first time the profile of the coastline is made by referring to charts much more precise than those of previous centuries. He had the great merit of use and disclose in cartography the etching technique, which allowed all'incisore to make drawings more accurate and crisp, allowing easier viewing Almost all of them before cartographers had instead used the technique of woodcut, much less precise. He was awarded one hundred and nine maps, which represented virtually the entire world. Considering it was incorrect for a long time a mere disciple of Ramusio, and to both of you must exit from tolemaismo geography, Gastaldi was rediscovered by geography after the Italian unit. At the end of the nineteenth century p.e. Nordenskjöld placed him at the pinnacle of European maps and fifty years after the sixteenth Almagia still its greatest scholar, he rebuilt a good biography.
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