Assedio de l'Isola di Malta
| Reference: | S37246 |
| Author | Domenico ZENOI |
| Year: | 1567 |
| Zone: | Malta |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 175 x 230 mm |
| Reference: | S37246 |
| Author | Domenico ZENOI |
| Year: | 1567 |
| Zone: | Malta |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 175 x 230 mm |
Description
The cartouche at the top left includes the title: ASSEDIO DE L'ISOLA DI MALTA 1565. Cum privilege. At the bottom, in the decoration of the cartouche, we find the signature: D [ome] n [i] co Zenoi 1567.
Map without graphic scale and graduation at the edges. Orientation with the name of the winds: TRAMONTANA, OSTRO, LEVANTE, PONENTE, the south-east is at the top.
Small map of the island published by Zenoi in 1567, but relating to the Great Siege of 1565. The map is printed in the same year as the collection Il Primo Libro Delle Citta Et Fortezze Principali Del Mondo, the first example of a collection of urban cartography, the result of collaboration between Zenoi and Paolo Forlani.
This map is present in three of the five known examples of the work, which also includes maps of La Valletta by Zenoi and that of Forlani.
Etching and burin in good condition.
Literature
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Almagià (1929): p. 33, VI; Bifolco-Ronca (2018): n. 879; Ganado (1993): p. 33, nn. A6, C1; Ganado-Vadalà (1995): pp. 297-302, n. 64, tav. 63; Ganado (2003): pp. 416-417, n. 57; Szalai-Matkovi? (2012): pp. 4-36; Tooley (1939): n. 358
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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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Almagià (1929): p. 33, VI; Bifolco-Ronca (2018): n. 879; Ganado (1993): p. 33, nn. A6, C1; Ganado-Vadalà (1995): pp. 297-302, n. 64, tav. 63; Ganado (2003): pp. 416-417, n. 57; Szalai-Matkovi? (2012): pp. 4-36; Tooley (1939): n. 358
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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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