CAMOCIO

CONSTANTINOPOLI,

CITTA PRINCIPALE DEL GRAN TURCHO

Giovanni Francesco CAMOCIO

Venice, D. Bertelli, ca. 1574

Uncolored

16,5 x 13 cm.

Uncommontown-plan of Constantinople. From Giovanni Francesco Camocio’s rare ” Isole Famose porti, fortezze, e terre maritime . . .” issued by Bertelli. The second state, which includes the plate number 46 in the upper right corner. West to the top.

This plate was made by Giovanni Francesco Camocio (1501 – 1575) and was included in his isolari first issued without title page and assembled to order during the late 1560s and 1570s. Camocio is believed to have died during the plague outbreak at Venice in 1575, after which many of his plates passed into the stock of Donato Bertelli, who added plate numbers. (See : R.Gallo, “Gioan Francesco Camocio and his large map of Europe”, in Imago Mundi VII (1950), p.93-102).