Giovanni Leardo
Illustration — Planisphere by Leardo (1448) Giovanni Leardo was a 15th-century Venetian geographer and cosmographer. Leardo made at least four mappae mundi, of which three survive today. Leardo's 1442 map is held at the Biblioteca Communale Library in Verona.
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Giovanni Leardo
Nordenskiöld, A. E. (Adolf Erik), 1832-1901 · Public domain
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Illustration — Planisphere by Leardo (1448) Giovanni Leardo was a 15th-century Venetian geographer and cosmographer. Leardo made at least four mappae mundi, of which three survive today. Leardo's 1442 map is held at the Biblioteca Communale Library in Verona.
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A 1447 map does not survive, but a 1448 map is held at the Museo Civico at Vicenza. A 1453 map was donated by Archer M. Huntington to the American Geographical Society, and is the oldest world map in the library there.
Iberian peninsula on the map of Giovanni Leardo.
Leardo, Giovanni (Flourished 1440)
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2025
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Giovanni Leardo is recorded as geographer and cartographer. A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
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