Pareto's 1455 chart.

Bartolomeo Pareto was a medieval priest and cartographer from Genoa who is best known for his sole surviving work, a 1455 nautical chart of the known world.[1] The chart is highly ornate and is notable for its depiction of Antillia, a phantom island said to exist in the Atlantic Ocean. Thought to have been lost in the mid-1800s, the Italian geographer Pietro Amat di San Filippo reported having located it in a storage room in the library of the Roman College in 1877.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Andrés, Juan (1822). Illustrazione di una carta geografica del 1455 e delle notizie, che in quel tempo aveansi dell' Antillia.
  2. ↑ Amat di San Filippo, Pietro (1878). "Del planisferio di Bartolomeo Pareto del 1455 e di altre quattro carte nautiche ritrovate testé nella biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele di Roma". Memorie della Società geografica italiana. 1: 55–61.


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