CORONELLI

1650-1718

Ordained as a Franciscan priest, Coronelli spent most of his life in Venice, becoming a noted theologian and being appointed, in 1699, Father General of his order. By that time he was already famous as a mathematician, cartographer and globe maker and his influence led to a revival of interest in these subjects in Italy at the end of the seventeenth century. He was certainly the greatest cartographer of his time there and became Cosmographer to the Venetian Republic, taught geography in the University and, in 1680, founded the first geographical society, the 'Academia Cosmografica degli Argonauti'.

In his lifetime he complied and engraved over 500 maps including a large 2-volume work, the Atlante Veneto, somewhat reminiscent of Robert Dudley's Dell' Arcano del Mare; he is equally well known for his construction of very large terrestrial and celestial globes, even finer than those of Blaeu, including one, 15 feet in diameter, made for Louis XIV of France.

1690-91 Atlante Veneto
1696-97 Isolario dell' Atlante Veneto
1692 Corso geografico universale
1695 Re-issued
1693 Epitome Cosmografica
1693 Libro dei Globi
1701 Re-issued
1695 World Map
1696 Pacific Ocean

Ref. Antique Maps by Carl Moreland and David Bannister pp 72

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