Giovanni Matteo Contarini

Giovanni Matteo Contarini († 1507 ) was a Venetian cartographer .

The Contarini-Rosselli world map, 1506

Contarini put together a famous map of the world that was engraved by the Florentine engraver Francesco Rosselli in 1506. The Contarini-Rosselli world map is the oldest surviving map produced by a printing process, on which part of the American continent is depicted. The only known copy of the map is kept in the British Library .

family

Giovanni Matteo Contarini was a member of the Venetian patrician family of the Contarini . He was the second son of Marco Contarini di Ruggero from the district of San Cassian (San Cassiano).

output

• Map Of The World Designed By Giovanni Matteo Contarini. Engraved by Francesco Roselli 1506. 2nd Ed. London, British Museum 1926.

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