ballino giulio zaltieri bolognino forlani (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to (271 x 209 mm., 10-3/4 x 8-1/4 inches): [4], [206] pages; engraved title-page by Nicolo Nelli, dedication leaf, manuscript index in early ink on verso of first map, and 53 mostly double-page engraved maps, city plans, fortifications and battle scenes with letterpress text in Italian on versos. Bound in contemporary vellum, gilt morocco spine label; early ink shelf marks on spine, very light general wear; pencil annotations to front pastedown, plan of Comar trimmed to plate and mounted to leaf (as issued), plans of Nettuno and Jerusalem with a small amount of period hand-coloring, plans of Perpignano and Constantinople each with a small tear at centerfold, and light intermittent foxing. Includes an additional double-page engraved plan of Perpignano, "Disegno della piazza et assedio di Perpignano", by Horatio Marinari, 1642 bound in after chapter on Perpignano. ATTRACTIVE COPY OF RARE AND IMPORTANT ITALIAN ATLAS, WITH MANY CITY PLANS BY PAOLO FORLANI AND DOMENICO ZENOI. Little is known about Giulio Ballino, Italian humanist and scholar who compiled the work and wrote the text. He was an associate of Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574), who mentions him in correspondence in the 1560s as working for him in various capacities, including corrector and editor (cf. Sbriziolo). Ballino s literary activity was primarily as a popularizer, translating many Greek philosophical and theological works into Italian. Printer and publisher Bolognino Zaltieri used the plates of several different engravers throughout the book, many being plans by Paolo Forlani (active 1560-1577) and Domenico Zenoi (active 1560-1580) that first appeared just two years earlier in Forlani s Il primo libro delle città, et fortezze principali del mondo (1567). The chart of Europe is by Girolamo Olgiato (active 1567-1575); Mexico City (here called "Timistitano", i.e. Tenochtitlan) is the only plan in the atlas of a site in the western hemisphere. The map of Central Europe and a marine chart of Europe by Olgiato are followed by views or battle plans of Venice, Fano, Mirandola, Florence, Siena, ancient Rome, modern Rome, Borgo di Roma, Castel Sant'Angelo, Ostia, Nettuno, Civitella, Vicovaro, Naples, Messina, Genoa, Parma, Piacenza, Milan, Crescentino, Paris, Perpignan (with an additional plan from 1642), Metz, Thionville, Cales, Guines, Antwerp, Gravelines, Augsburg, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gotha, Wittenberg, Vienna, Eger, Gyor, Comar, Gyula, Tokaji, Sziget, Zsaka, Constantinople, the Grand Turk and his army, Jerusalem, Tiberias, Malta (fortification), Malta (siege), Tripoli, Zerbe, Peñon de Velez de la Gomera, and Mexico City. REFERENCES: Cremonini 4; Lia Sbriziolo, "Giulio Ballino", Treccani Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 5 (1963) (online); R. V. Tooley, "Maps in Italian Atlases of the Sixteenth Century, being a comparative list of the Italian maps issued by Lafreri, Forlani, Duchetti, Bertelli and others, found in atlases", Imago Mundi 3 (1939): pp. 12-47. Book.