Decorative map of the Azores embellished by an elaborate inset map of Angra do Heroísmo, (one of the three capital cities of the Azores) on Terceira Island. From Coronelli’s Corso Geografico Universale published in Venice in 1690. 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 ecclesiastical career and never suppressed. He made very famous globes (including an impressive very large-scale pair for Louis XIV) and some of the most interesting and decorative atlases of all 17th century like Atlante Veneto, Isolario, Corso Geografico Universale, Libro dei Globi and also some pocket books about towns and islands. These important works are all finely engraved in his unique style with high quantity of toponymic and historical information. In 1680 Coronelli also founded the oldest surviving geographical society “The Argonauts Accademy”.
[Portugal] Isole Azzori o Azzoridi dette altrimenti Acipitrum, Tertiae, Flandricae et Superiores. Possedute nel Mare Atlantico da Portoghesi
- Author: CORONELLI Vincenzo Maria
- Year: 1690
- Dimension: 450 x 602 mm
- Place of publication: Venice
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