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Ferrando Bertelli was born in Venice in 1525. He was one of the most creative of Venetian map maker and engravers of the Renaissance period, who also traded atlases and worked at different periods with other famous names in Venetian cartography.
The ancient map below is based on an earlier world map created by Giacomo Gastaldi. It illustrates the world continents as it was known in the middle 1500s.
Title set in an ornamental strap-work cartouche, sea mythical creatures and galleons decorate the oceans.
