| Giovanni Battista Mazza | |
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Venice c.1590
Original
copperplate printed map
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This is a separately published, beautifully engraved map of Africa. It is attributed to the engraver, Giovanni Mazza whose imprint is on the map as 'Iouan Batista Mazza fece'. There is a dedicatory cartouche for Francesco Moresini at the bottom right of the map. The dedicatory cartouche is signed by Donato Rasciotti (at the bottom of the ten line dedication, there is the very faint signature of "Donato Rasicoiij.".). It is known that Donato Rasciotti or Rasicotti was an editor and publisher from Brescia. Little is known of Mazza. He may be most known for his superb engraving of Giuseppe Rosaccio's large, ten-sheet world map in 1597. All of his maps are of great rarity. The map was published separately, but may have appeared in composite Italian atlases of the late sixteenth century. We are aware of only two other examples of this map at the Newberry Library in Chicago and in Bern at the Stadt und Universitätsbibliothek.
Betz, Map #25. Betz, Richard
L., with Penelope W. Betz. The Mapping of
Africa: A Cartobibliography of
Printed Maps of the African Continent to 1700.
't Goy-Houten, The Netherlands: HES & De Graaf
Publishers, 2007. Fine Condition. |
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