Sardinia jnsula inter africu[m] et tirrenum pelagus sita magnitudine 562 mil. Pas..
| Reference: | s30329 |
| Author | Ferrando BERTELLI |
| Year: | 1562 |
| Zone: | Sardinia |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 185 x 298 mm |
€5,500.00
| Reference: | s30329 |
| Author | Ferrando BERTELLI |
| Year: | 1562 |
| Zone: | Sardinia |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 185 x 298 mm |
€5,500.00
Description
A very rare map of the island published in Venice by Ferrando Bertelli in 1562. Cartographically it is a derivation of Giacomo Gastaldi's map printed a few years earlier.
In the center of the island, in large letters, it reads: SARDEGNA. In the upper left cartouche is a brief geographical description of the region, followed by editorial details: Sardinia jnsula inter africu[m] et tirrenum pelagus sita magnitudine 562 mil. pas: fertilis admodu[m] animaliumque varij generis abu[n]da[n]s metallis stagnis argentareijs fontibus salubris prestantisima. FER. BER. EXC. 1562. Orientation in the four sides in the center, with the names of the winds: TRAMONTANA, MEZZO DI, LEVANTE, PONENTE, north is at top. Map lacks graphic scale and graduation in margins.
“La carta della Sardegna firmata da Ferrando Bertelli è una derivazione del modello gastaldino. Rispetto a questa, non apporta novità dal punto di vista geo-cartografico; leggermente più piccola, è arricchita da piccoli elementi decorativi, quali le illustrazioni di uomini e cavalli. L’opera appartiene ad una serie di mappe delle isole del Mediterraneo occidentale (Sardegna, Corsica, Maiorca, Minorca) che Bertelli realizzò nel periodo 1560- 65. Di questa tipologia di mappe questa lastra risulta l’unica a recare una data di stampa. Almagià sostiene, senza ulteriori indicazioni, che “ve ne sono anche copie con la data 1563”, tuttavia, nessuno degli esemplari da noi esaminati riporta una data diversa. La carta è altresì inserita nell’esemplare del Civitatutm Aliquot insignorum et locor[um] di Ferrando Bertelli (1568) conservato all’Università di Helsinki” (cfr. Bifolco-Ronca, Cartografia e topografia italiana del XVI secolo, p. 2107).
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 and engraving, printed on contemporary laid paper with “wheel” watermark (Woodward nos. 185-186), trimmed to copperplate and with margins added, in excellent condition.
Bibliografia
Bifolco-Ronca, Cartografia e topografia italiana del XVI secolo, p. 2073, Tav. 1048; R. Almagià, Monumenta Italiae Cartographica, 1929, p. 22; R. Almagià, Monumenta Cartografica Vaticana, 1948, pp. 103, 42; L. Lago, Imago Italiae, 2002, fig. 490; L. Piloni, Carte geografiche della Sardegna, 1974, XXV, p. 58; R.V. Tooley, Maps in Italian Atlases ofthe Sixteenth Century, 1939, p.12-47, n. 510- 511.
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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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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