L'isole piu famose del mondo
Thomaso Porcacchi's L'isole piu famose del mondo, printed in Venice in 1572 by Simon Galignani and Girolamo Porro, is a sixteenth-century atlas of island maps for an Italian-reading audience. The engraved maps show islands such as Chios, Morea, Scotland and Sicily with coastlines, mountains, compass roses, decorative cartouches and sea monsters, offering a designer ornate cartographic framing devices and hand-drawn terrain shading.
