Giovanni Battista Boazio
Giovanni Battista Boazio or Battista Boazio (– 1606) was an Italian draftsman and cartographer. He mapped Sir Francis Drake's voyage to the West Indies and America. • Illustration — Sir Francis Drake in Cartagena. He spent a long period working in England, and made a map of Ireland that was then used in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
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Giovanni Battista Boazio

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- Giovanni Battista Boazio was born, sources differ on the date (the 17th century and 1 January 1600).
- Died
- Giovanni Battista Boazio died, sources differ on the date (1606 and 1 January 1700).
- Occupation
- cartographer.
- Languages
- Italian.
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Giovanni Battista Boazio or Battista Boazio (– 1606) was an Italian draftsman and cartographer. He mapped Sir Francis Drake's voyage to the West Indies and America. • Illustration — Sir Francis Drake in Cartagena. He spent a long period working in England, and made a map of Ireland that was then used in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
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He was sponsored by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex to draw a map illustrating the Capture of Cádiz, which was engraved by Thomas Cockson. Other cartographic drawings includes Cartagena, Santo Domingo in the island of Hispaniola, Saint Augustine, Florida and the Cape Verdean island of Santiago, the Santiago engraving was one of the first to depict of that of any island in Cape Verde.
The recorded working language is Italian. Work by Giovanni Battista Boazio is recorded in the collections of The Linen Hall and Het Scheepvaartmuseum.
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1600
Giovanni Battista Boazio was born on 1 January 1600.
1606
Giovanni Battista Boazio died on 1 January 1700.
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Paul E. J. Hammer, The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: the political career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597 (1999), p. 253 note 304; Google Books.
- 2.Jay I. Kislak. The Cultures and History of the Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. Library of Congress.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Carl Moreland and David Bannister (1986), Antique Maps, p. 71.
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