A beautiful and rare map showing the isle of Re near La Rochelle from Coronelli’s Corso Geografico Universale published in Venice in 1690. The cartouche also contains the dedication to Lolin. Vincenzo Maria Coronelli is widely recognised as one of Italy?s most famous and greatest cartographers. He received an ecclesiastical education at the convent of the Minor Conventuals and also studied theology in Rome. However, his interests in geography and cartography were awoken early in his ecclesiastic
