Giovanni Battista Boazio

Giovanni Battista Boazio ( also Baptista Boazio or Johannes B. Boazius ), whose dates of birth and death are not known, was an Italian draftsman and cartographer . During his creative period, which is dated between 1585 and 1606, he worked in England.

Boazio became famous at the end of the 1580s when he created a series of cards with five hand-colored engravings for the book Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage by Walter Bigges , which illustrate Sir Francis Drake's pirate voyage into the Caribbean in 1585/86 . The map set consists of an English-labeled travel route map and four city maps labeled in Latin. They show the attacks on the Cape Verde island of Santiago , on Santo Domingo on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola , on Cartagena on the north coast of today's Colombia and on St. Augustine on the Florida coast .

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  Map of Sir Francis Drake's 1585/86 itinerary

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  Drake's fleet off Santiago, Cape Verde, 1585

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  Drake's fleet off Santo Domingo, 1585

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  Drake's fleet off Cartagena, 1585/86 (the map is flipped and facing east)

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  Drake's forces attack St. Augustine, Florida on July 7, 1586 (map faces west)

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  Irlandiæ accurata descriptio , the map of Ireland (the map faces west)

For his patron Robert Devereux, the 2nd Earl of Essex , he designed a map showing the attack on Cádiz in July 1596. During this dispute, a fleet of English and Dutch ships under the leadership of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham , Walter Raleigh and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, sank 32 Spanish ships in the important Spanish port city and looted and destroyed them City itself. Thomas Cockson created the copperplate for Boazio's map design .

For the first printed atlas of England and Wales , which was published by Christopher Saxton (* around 1540, † around 1610), he created five maps.

In addition, Boazio created a map of Ireland that was oriented not to the north, as usual, but to the west. The card, which was also presented to Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1599 , appeared in a new edition of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum .

Web links

Commons : Giovanni Battista Boazio  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Literature by and about Giovanni Battista Boazio in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Online exhibition The Cultures and History of the Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. In: Library of Congress.
2. ^ Paul EJ Hammer : The Polarization of Elizabethan Politics. The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585–1597 (= Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. ). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 0-521-43485-8 , p. 253, note 304.
3. ↑ Giovanni Battista Boazio. ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Maps of the World.