Porcacchi’s Map of the Gulf of Lepanto Dorset The text of this edition
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Description
The text of this edition was printed in London by Moyes
charged by the French king with mapping the coasts of France first and then the rest of the world
Title and dedication to George
on the maps of Norfolk and Rutland)
Porcacchi’s Map of the Gulf of Lepanto Dorset The text of this editionIl Sito de Curzolari (and Gulf of Lepanto) This map of the gulf of Lepanto was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and historiated initial. It is from LIsole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books. The battle of Lepanto, 1571, was the first great defeat of the Turkish navy, and marked the beginning of the end of Ottoman naval supremacy.
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