CORSICA and ELBA - FABIO LICINIO ( c. 1521-1565).
CORSICA and ELBA - FABIO LICINIO ( c. 1521-1565). Cirnus sive Corsica insula . Venice: [c. 1560-1565]. Engraved map of Corsica, 298 x 198mm, trimmed with original extended margins. Tooley:1939 no.169, Woodward:1996 watermark 206. BERTELLI, FERRANDO ( fl. 1556-1572). Ilba sive Ilva insula . Venice: Ferrando Bertelli,[ c.1560]. Engraved map of Elba, 240 x 179mm, trimmed with original extended margins. Tooley:1939 no.195; Woodward:1996 watermark 129. Two very rare and highly decorative maps of Corsica and Elba. The map of Corsica was made by the master engraver Fabio Licinio, who was closely associated with Giacomo Gastaldi, and it bears a close resemblance to Ferrando Bertelli's 1562 rendering of the island. The second map, of the island of Elba in the Tyrrhenean Sea, was devised by the Venetian Ferrando Bertelli following the occasion of the island's succesful resistance to an Ottoman siege in 1553. The focus of the image is the great fortress of Portferraio, then called Cosmopoli. (2)
CORSICA and ELBA - FABIO LICINIO ( c. 1521-1565).
CORSICA and ELBA - FABIO LICINIO ( c. 1521-1565). Cirnus sive Corsica insula . Venice: [c. 1560-1565]. Engraved map of Corsica, 298 x 198mm, trimmed with original extended margins. Tooley:1939 no.169, Woodward:1996 watermark 206. BERTELLI, FERRANDO ( fl. 1556-1572). Ilba sive Ilva insula . Venice: Ferrando Bertelli,[ c.1560]. Engraved map of Elba, 240 x 179mm, trimmed with original extended margins. Tooley:1939 no.195; Woodward:1996 watermark 129. Two very rare and highly decorative maps of Corsica and Elba. The map of Corsica was made by the master engraver Fabio Licinio, who was closely associated with Giacomo Gastaldi, and it bears a close resemblance to Ferrando Bertelli's 1562 rendering of the island. The second map, of the island of Elba in the Tyrrhenean Sea, was devised by the Venetian Ferrando Bertelli following the occasion of the island's succesful resistance to an Ottoman siege in 1553. The focus of the image is the great fortress of Portferraio, then called Cosmopoli. (2)
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