Disegno della Pianta di Venetia con tutti i Canalli, Rij, Chiese, Ponti, Isolette, division de Sestieri

RARE EXAMPLE OF FIRST STATE

At the top along the border the title: DISEGNODELLA PIANTA DI VENETIA CON tutti i Canali, Rij, Chiese, Ponti, Isolette, division de Sestieri 1627. On the right in the frame AL SER. MO PRENCIPE ZUANE CORNER DUCE DI VENETIA S.ta conserve. Di V.Ser.ta Divot.mo et affet.mo Ser.re Alessandro Badoer fu de fr.co. Orientation in the four sides to the center with the name of the winds TRAMONTANA, OSTRO, LEVANTE, PONENTE, the north is at the top. 

Etching and engraving 1627, with magnificent original coloring.

Exemplar from the first state of four, printed on contemporary laid paper, with margins, in excellent condition.

The so-called map of Venice "Badoer-Scolari" is the first of four basic map forms for Venice, which would influence subsequent cartographers for many years. The map was published for the first time in 1627 with a dedication to the Doge Giovanni Cornaro (1625-1629).

It constitutes the first scientifically drawn plan of Venice; important buildings and structures are depicted using a perspective style, with many place names included. Badoer-Scolari's plan is also the first to include the island of San Giorgio Maggiore and includes many updated details. Over the course of the century, the publisher Stefano Mozzi Scolari - who evidently purchased the copper from Badoer - reprinted the table several times. Scolari's first version, without the date of printing, has the address Stefano Scolari forma in Venetia a S. Zulian added in the lower right. There are changes within the plan, where monuments and their toponyms are added: La Salute, Li Carmelitani Scalci, S. Teresia, Le Capucine. Always signed Scolari are known two more editions in which the date is corrected in 1667 first and then 1677.

The first edition of the map, edited by Alessandro Badoer and with Scolari's address, is extremely rare. Marinelli (1881) knows the specimen in a private collection in Venice. Giocondo Cassini, describing the edition of 1677, writes: "It represents the first example of a sufficiently exact topographic map, which must not have been unknown to Coronelli. [...] On the copper are evident additions made in the workshop of Scolari of churches built in the last decades of the century such as La Salute, Santa Teresa, Santa Maria del Pianto. Therefore we think that the present is a state subsequent to the original, of which unfortunately we have not been able to find any specimen" (cf. G. Cassini, Piante e vedute prospettiche di Venezia, 1971, p. 76).

The first edition is unknown even to Romanelli Biadene (1982) and Moretto (2001) who mention the exemplar described by Marinelli.

Evidently, however, they had not had the opportunity to consult J. Schultz (1970), who lists the four known exemplars of the first edition of the map (Leiden, University Library; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France; Stockholm, Royal Library; Venice, Querini Stampalia). In any case, we can define the first edition of the work as extremely rare.

Literature

Cartografia Rara (1986): p. 156, n. 146; Cassini (1971): p. 76, n. 39; Marinelli (1881): n. 821; Moretto (2001): pp. 150-151, n. 67; Romanelli-Biadene (1982): p. 49, n. 44; Schulz (1970): p. 79, nn. 107-109.