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Stock# 73925

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Giordano Ziletti

Title

Regno di Napoli

Publication Place / Date

Venice / 1557

Image Dimensions

18.25 x 13.25 inches

Color

Uncolored

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Stock# 73925

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Description

The First Printed Map Titled "Regno di Napoli".

Early Lafreri-school map of southern Italy as the Kingdom of Naples, published in Venice in 1557 by Giordano Ziletti.

As far as Italian printed maps of Southern Italy, only the Pietro Coppo (1525) predates the present map. As Bifolco & Ronca and Almagià have pointed out, the cartography presented here is new in print and likely derives from manuscript maps or a still-unknown large-format map of Italy.

Bifolco & Ronca (2018, tav. 1035) comment:

First printed map entitled Regno di Napoli ["Kingdom of Naples"]. The map has no relationship with the contemporary map by Pirro Ligorio, and for the drawing of the coast, it does not show direct analogies with nautical maps. It probably derives from an earlier hand-drawn map, rather than from documents or even from a general map of Italy that is not known to us. According to Almagià "it is probably based on an earlier hand-drawn map of the Kingdom, perhaps integrated with data taken from written descriptions, both general of Italy (Alberti, Biondo, etc.), and details of the Kingdom of Naples (Mazzella, etc.) ". The map, which shows only the northern part of Sicily, was then taken as a model by several contemporary publishers. The editorial imprint on the paper, at the Libreria della Stella, identifies Giordano Ziletti's typography. In fact, the first draft of the card can be regarded as proof that all the decorative elements in the sea. print of the work, in which both the graphic scale are omitted.

Bifolco & Ronca's 2nd state (of 2).

Condition Description

Faint toning at the edges and centerfold. Trimmed to the image as frequently seen with Lafreri-school maps.

Reference

Bifolco & Ronca (2018) tav. 1035; Rara (1986), 67; Conti-Di Biasio (2102) pages 52-53; Lago (2002) pages 457-459, fig. 455; Mostra Bergamo (2016) 62; Perini (1996) page 111; Tooley (1939), 401.