Giacomo Cantelli
Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola (February 1643 − 30 November 1695) was an Italian cartographer and engraver of the 17th century.
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- Name
- Giacomo Cantelli
- Birthplace
- Vignola, Papal States (in modern Province of Modena, Italy)
- Died
- 30 November 1695
- Place of death
- Possibly Modena
- Occupation
- cartographer
- Education
- University of Bologna
- Born
- 1643 · Vignola.
- Languages
- Latin
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Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola (February 1643 − 30 November 1695) was an Italian cartographer and engraver of the 17th century.
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• Name — Giacomo Cantelli • Birthplace — Vignola, Papal States (in modern Province of Modena, Italy) • Died — 30 November 1695 • Place of death — Possibly Modena • Occupation — cartographer • Education — University of Bologna
Early life
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Born in Vignola, Cantelli attended the University of Bologna. • Illustration — Cantelli's map of Albania commissioned by Pope Clement XI
Career
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Cantelli was hired as secretary by the Marquis of Ferrara. Later he moved to Venice, becoming well known as a geographer and cartographer. From 1672 his maps were published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi. Early works depicted the Holy Land, Persia and the Ottoman Empire. In the 1680s came maps of Lombardy, Kingdom of Sicily, Qing China, Tartary, Greece, the Moluccas, India and parts of Europe. In 1685 Cantelli was made court cartographer to Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena. He published a well-known 1689 map of Serbia. • Illustration — Cantelli's map of Serbia His last works were a map of Spain and one of north-western Italy with the Dauphiné and Provence. He died in 1695 at the age of 52.
Calcografia in Iconografia italiana degli uomini e delle donne celebri: dall'epoca del risorgimento delle scienze e delle arti fino ai nostri giorni, Milano, Antonio Locatelli, 1837.
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The map is based on Cantelli di Vignola's map of 1683, Coronelli, however omits the Mariana Islands and Papua New Guinea, making the map slightly narrower. He also divides the East Indies into three geographical areas, the Molluccas, the Sonde and the Philippine Islands by the use of dotted lines. Title cartouche of mer-putti carrying a flag.
Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718 · NLB Singapore, David Parry Southeast Asian Map Collection. Available on BookSG https: eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/82a70b7d-1dfe-404a-ae8f-822482222c2d.aspx
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- 1.Antichità Estensi, vol. II, Modena 1740, p. 602
- 2.Benedetto Bacchini, Giornale dei letterati d'Italia, n. XXXIV, 1721, p. 315.
- 3.Luigi Vischi, Nuovi documenti intorno a Giacomo Cantelli, in "Atti e memorie della Deputazione di storia Patria per le province modenesi e parmensi", cap. IV, 1886, pp. 169-196.
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