Visconte Maggiolo (1478 – after 1549), also spelled Maiollo and Maiolo , was a Genoese cartographer.
5-566: Maggiolo is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Lorenzo Maggiolo (1440-1501), Italian philosopher Visconte Maggiolo (1478–1530), Italian cartographer and sailor Eduardo Maggiolo (born 1944), Argentine sport wrestler Elisa Maggiolo (born 1980), Argentine chess player Ezequiel Maggiolo (born 1977), Argentine footballer Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (1936–2021), Dominican writer, archaeologist and anthropologist [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
10-666: A century. A copy of this 1527 map was destroyed during World War II . There are numerous portolan charts , atlases and at least two other world maps made by Vesconte Maggiolo: one dated Genoa, 1531; another kept at a public library in Treviso (in Italian), is dated Genoa, 1549. Although he specialized in the mapping of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea, Maggiolo was
15-517: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Visconte Maggiolo He was born in Genoa and maybe he was a fellow sailor of explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano . 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
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25-531: 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
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