Giovanni Of Baillou Rend Compte Of Sa Discovery Of La Map Marco Polo And

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Giovanni de Baillou reports on his discovery of Marco Polo's map and precious portulans.

Giovanni de Baillou reports on his discovery of Marco Polo's map and precious portulans.

Document type : signed autograph manuscript

Number of documents: 1 - Number of pages: 34 - Size: Folio

Place : Florence [Italy]

Date : September-October 1813

RECIPIENT : Without

State : very good

"Memory on some maps of the Middle Ages among which stand out the Periplus of Marino Sanuto and the map of Marco Polo's travels which is in the dello Scudo room of the Ducal Palace in Venice". Very interesting manuscript by the geographer Giovanni de Baillou, which reports on his research for portolans in public and private libraries in Italy. He dwells more particularly on two extraordinary finds: "The Periplus of Marino Sanuto of 1321 [which] is the oldest monument of hydrography possessed by science and at the same time one of the most perfect" and "The map of the voyages of Marco Polo kept in Venice […]”, which he managed to prove was not by the hand of the famous traveller, but by two different hands. “It is the oldest and the first figured monument that remains to us of this amazing journey. It seems that it was built around the year 1460, shortly after Fra Mauro's Map of the World […]”.

Numerous erasures, corrections and passages crossed out.
Giovanni Baillou (de) (Livorno, 1758/1819)
Italian geographer, correspondent of the Institute, director of the office of geography of Florence, he was in charge of the geographical division of the departments composing Tuscany during the occupation of the Napoleonic troops.
 
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"Memory on some maps of the Middle Ages among which stand out the Periplus of Marino Sanuto and the map of Marco Polo's travels which is in the dello Scudo room of the Ducal Palace in Venice". Very interesting manuscript by the geographer Giovanni de Baillou, which reports on his research for portolans in public and private libraries in Italy. He dwells more particularly on two extraordinary finds: "The Periplus of Marino Sanuto of 1321 [which] is the oldest monument of hydrography possessed by science and at the same time one of the most perfect" and "The map of the voyages of Marco Polo kept in Venice […]”, which he managed to prove was not by the hand of the famous traveller, but by two different hands. “It is the oldest and the first figured monument that remains to us of this amazing