Delle Navigationi Et Viaggi: In Molti Lvoghi Corretta, Et Ampliata, Nella Qvale Si Contengono La Descrittione Dell'Africa, & del paese del Prete Ianni, con varij viaggi ... et la Nauigatione attorno il Mondo ...
Delle Navigationi et Viaggi is a sixteenth-century Italian collection of travel accounts compiled by Giovanni Battista Ramusio and printed in Venice in 1554, held by Heidelberg University Library. Its woodcut maps and plans, such as the Nile-and-Red-Sea map, a Red Sea chart and a church ground plan with lettered keys, show the geography of Africa, Arabia and the Indian Ocean as early modern cartographers drew them. A designer might draw on the ornate compass-like borders, the wave-patterned oceans, the labelled legends and the tiny ships for period-accurate map and navigation motifs.
