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Giacomo Gastaldi: Universale Novo
Title: Universale Novo Map Maker: Giacomo Gastaldi
Description: Fine example of Gastaldi's modern map of the World, published in Venice in 1548. For his 1548 Geographia, Gastaldi produced 2 modern maps of the world, this map and is Carta Marina Nova Tabula, produced more in the tradition of a sea chart. Nordinskold believed that the maps from this map was engraved by Gastaldi himself. The map is a simplified version of Gastaldi's map of 1546, but with the addition of 6 windheads. The map appears on an oval projection, with North America and Asia connected as one land mass. The Amazon is shown flowing North-South. The California peninsula is shown. There is little detail along the east coast of North America. Giacomo Gastaldi is considered as the foremost Italian cartographer of the 16th century along with Paolo Forlani. Gastaldi established his reputation in Venice and was cosmographer to the Republic of Venice. Gastaldi enjoyed a productive relationship with Giovanni Ramusio, Secretary of the Venice Senate, who used Gastaldi's maps for his Navigationi et Viaggi. This map is from Gastaldi's edition of Ptolemy, Ptolemeo. La Geografia..., begun as early as 1542 and published in Venice in 1548.
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