Literature and Digital Diversity

Untitled world map

Floriano, Antonio, active 1545-1555 (Cartographer)

Venice

[ca. 1555]

Cartographic
Still image

Maps (documents)
Historical maps

Map/Globe, Image

reformatted digital

In 1555, the Venetian Senate granted Antonio Floriano of Udine a privilege (the Renaissance equivalent of a copyright) to publish this map of the world. In his application to the Senate, Floriano wrote that he had used his "diligence and knowledge" to create "a mappemonde which has never been made before, with the aid of which one can easily study and learn cosmography and see the entire picture of the world, since it can be reduced to spheric form." Dramatically, Floriano wrote that the map had caused him "so much drudgery and sweat," such "heavy toil," that it defied the imagination.

The Abstract/Description provided for this map is taken from an accompanying gallery schedule.

Early American and European Maps

World maps
Northern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
Antarctica

american_floriano_001

Northeastern University Library

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