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| | Slide #256 Monograph |
 | | DESCRIPTION: Henricus Martellus was the one mapmaker who linked the late medieval cartography, just emerging from social, religious, academic and technological constraints, to mapping that reflected the Renaissance and the new discoveries. |
 | | This world map is utterly without the amount of adornment typical of earlier maps of this period, i.e., princes, castles, animals, etc. (the only remanents are some castellated towns in Asia). |
 | | Signora Carla Marzoli of Milan, in a private communication, stated that this large map 'had left Italy into the possession of family centuries ago and had been lodged in a Swiss bank for safety, for a long time.' In 1959, through trade channels, she learned that this map was for sale. |
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