Bonifacio Cyprus

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Isola di Cipro.

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BONIFACIO, Natale
Venice,
c.1568.
Engraved map.
155 by 205mm. (6 by 8 inches).
12167

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This map of Cyprus was printed as a single sheet by Natale Bonifacio, whose monogram appears at the bottom left. The cartography is attributed to a Venetian mapmaker, Felice Brunello, about whom very little is known. Although it is undated, Bonifacio published a series of maps showing Aegean and Ionian islands from 1567 to 1568, indicating that this map was published around then.

Natale Bonifacio (1537-1592) was a Dalmatian engraver, publisher and cosmographer, ...

bibliography:

bibliography:

Navari, 66, 16; Meurer, Strabo, 96; Stylianou 45; Sweet Land of Cyprus, 8; Zacharakis 219.

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