Visconte Maggiolo

In 1511 he moved to Naples, where he produced three extant nautical atlases. Some historians say that he died of malaria in 1530; but archival documents show that he was still alive, in Genoa, at least in 1549, although he certainly was already dead in 1561. In 1527, he created a map depicting Verrazzano's travels. This map had a major error (the eponymous "Verrazzano Sea" and "Verrazzano Isthmus", which depicted a large sea, believed to be the Pacific Ocean, across a narrow isthmus on the eastern coast of North America) as Verrazzano did not accurately describe the North American continent. This error continued to show up in maps for over a century. A copy of this 1527 map was destroyed during World War II. Although he specialized in the mapping of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea, Maggiolo was the first to report in his atlas of 1548 the toponym of the South American river Rio de Amaxones.

• Illustration — Italy, western Sicily and the Adriatic coast • Illustration — North Africa, Europe and part of Asia • Illustration — Africa, Asia, Europe and part of the New World • Illustration — Atlantic coast of Africa and Europe, the British Isles, and Iceland • Illustration — Cosmographical planisphere, with Africa, Asia, and Europe in the center • Illustration — Dedication leaf and map of Corsica • Illustration — Greek Islands and the Aegean Sea • Illustration — West coast of Africa, including Cape Verde Islands, São Tomé, Príncipe, and Annobón • Illustration — Western Mediterranean • Illustration — Western hemisphere