L'isole piu famose del mondo
Thomaso Porcacchi's 1576 Venetian atlas of the world's famous islands, printed in Venice by Galignani and Porro, presents small engraved island maps for a learned general readership. The pictures are copperplate maps with dense place names, hand-lettered titles in decorative cartouches, compass roses and sea monsters in the margins, which give a designer ornamental map borders and lettering ideas.
