52 Giacomo Gastaldi / Abraham Ortelius (ed.) – Patavini Territorii Corographia & Apuliae quae olim Iapygia – Copperplate Engravings – c. 1595

Both maps exhibit the characteristic ornamentation of Ortelius’s atlas: strapwork cartouches, Latin inscriptions, and elegant engraving style. The work combines classical geographic knowledge with Renaissance humanist scholarship, offering one of the earliest coherent cartographic representations of Italy’s regional divisions.

Giacomo Gastaldi (c. 1500–1566) was a Venetian cartographer and engineer known for his pioneering regional maps of Italy. Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) was a Flemish geographer and map publisher who compiled and edited the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in 1570, often considered the first true modern atlas.

Artist or Maker: Giacomo Gastaldi (mapmaker), Abraham Ortelius (editor)

Dimensions: 36 cm x 49 cm (plate)

Medium: Copperplate engraving on laid paper

Date: c. 1595

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