Giovanni Leardo

Giovanni Leardo was a 15th-century Venetian geographer and cosmographer. Leardo made at least four mappae mundi, of which three survive today.^[2]

Leardo's 1442 map is held at the Biblioteca Communale Library in Verona. A 1447 map does not survive, but a 1448 map is held at the Museo Civico at Vicenza.^[3] A 1452 map was donated by Archer M. Huntington to the American Geographical Society, and is the oldest world map in the library there.^[4]

References

^ Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik (1897). Periplus: An Essay on the Early History of Charts and Sailing Directions. Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt. Figure 21.
^ Evelyn Edson (2007). The World Map, 1300-1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation. JHU Press. pp. 188–. ISBN 978-0-8018-8589-1.
^ Jim Siebold, The Leardo World Maps
^ Wright, John Kirtland (1928). The Leardo map of the world: 1452 or 1453, in the collections of the American geographical society. American Geographical Society.

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[1] Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik (1897). Periplus: An Essay on the Early History of Charts and Sailing Directions. Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt. Figure 21.

[Edson2007-2] Evelyn Edson (2007). The World Map, 1300-1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation. JHU Press. pp. 188–. ISBN 978-0-8018-8589-1.

[3] Jim Siebold, The Leardo World Maps

[WrightHoen1928-4] Wright, John Kirtland (1928). The Leardo map of the world: 1452 or 1453, in the collections of the American geographical society. American Geographical Society.

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