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CAMOCIO, Giovanni Francesco
By Pierre Joppen
Nov 27, 2008, 03:41

Giovanni Francesco Camocio published in the early 1560s a number of maps that were drawn by Forlani, including maps of the World, North Atlantic, Africa, France, Switzerland, and provinces of the Low Countries, to note but a few. 
Circa 1570, Camocio published an Isolario, or collection  of maps of islands, principally from the Mediterranean, but including the British Isles and Iceland.  Camocio's earliest issues lacked a title-page, and tended to be a relatively random selection from the available stock. 
Later he added a title Isole Famose Porti, Fortezze E Terre Maritime.  After his death, which is assumed to have been in 1573, the plates were reprinted, with a title-page bearing the Bertelli family address 'alla Libraria del Segno di S. Marco', possibly by Donato Bertelli, whose imprint is found on a later state of Camocio's world map of 1560.

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