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Rare first state of Dominicus Vadorinius map of the Volterra in Tuscany, once an important Etruscan city.
With an explanatory key index on the bottom identifying 155 buildings on the map, depicting the map in Etruscan times. Volterra was a Neolithic settlement and an important Etruscan center with an original civilization. The City became a municipium in the Roman Age. The city was a bishop's residence in the fifth century and its episcopal power was affirmed during the twelfth century. With the decline of the episcopate, Volterra was conquered by the Florentines, whose rule was not always popular, and opposition occasionally broke into rebellion. When the Florentine Republic fell in 1530, Volterra came under the control of the Medici family and became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
The map was later issued in the 1630s without the signature imprint in the lower right corner by Curzio Inghirami (Voltera 1614-1655) as one of 3 maps in his Ethruscarum antiquitatum fragment, vrbis quibus Romae, aliarumque gentium primordia, mores, & res gestae tindicantur in Curti Inghirami Scornelli reperta Vulterram prope . . . A treatise on ancient Etruscan based on an apocryphal document (the Cronaca etrusca di Prosperus Fesulanus) Inghirami, was a member of a distinguished family of humanists Volterra.