L'isole piu famose del mondo
Thomaso Porcacchi's 1576 Venetian atlas of the world's most famous islands, published in Venice by Simon Galignani and Girolamo Porro, gathers small copperplate island maps for a scholarly and armchair readership. The pictures are small, hand-lettered engraved maps with dense place names, compass roses, decorative cartouches and sea monsters, offering a designer ideas for cartographic framing, title panels and antique map ornament.
