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Last Name Gastaldi

Given Name Giacomo

alt. Names G. G. ; Jacopo / Iacobo Gastaldi ;

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Year born 1500 in Villafranca Piemonte

Year died 1566

Place of death Venice

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Country of Activity Italy

Worked for map "The new world with Japan" (Venice 1556) ; map "Asiae Nova Descriptio" (1570, 2nd: 1574) ;

Patronage Venice’s Council of Ten ;

Collaborators publisher Nicolo Bascarini ; publisher Giovanbattista Pedrezano ; editor Girolamo Ruscellis ;

Techniques cartographical drawing and engraving

Sample(s) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Gastaldi#/media/File:1551_Venice_Gastaldi-Descriptione_de_la_Moscouia.jpg

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Gastaldi

Published sources Walter 1994: plates 9 & 10 ;

other See also: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asiae_Nova_Descriptio_1574.JPG.

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