Porcacchi’s Map of the Gulf of Lepanto Dorset Title and dedication to George

Title and dedication to George

This plan of Constantinople is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers

otherwise a very good copy

This is a scarce and ephemeral title

Derbyshire

Porcacchi’s Map of the Gulf of Lepanto Dorset Title and dedication to GeorgeIl Sito de Curzolari (and Gulf of Lepanto) This map of the gulf of Lepanto was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and historiated initial. It is from LIsole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books. The battle of Lepanto, 1571, was the first great defeat of the Turkish navy, and marked the beginning of the end of Ottoman naval supremacy.