Carta Particolare dell mare e Isole sco perte dal capitano Iacomo Maier Olandese nel 1617 con parte della nuoua Guinea.

Mapmaker:

Sir Robert Dudley (1574-1649) 

Dudley was an English explorer and cartographer and illegitimate son of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. He inherited the bulk of the Earl’s estate in accordance with his father’s will, including Kenilworth Castle. In 1603–1605, he tried unsuccessfully to establish his legitimacy in court. After that he left England forever, finding a new existence in the service of the grand dukes of Tuscany. There, he worked as an engineer and shipbuilder, and designed and published Dell Arcano del Mare (1645-1646), the first maritime atlas to cover the whole world. He was also a skilled navigator and mathematician. In Italy, he styled himself “Earl of Warwick and Leicester“, as well as “Duke of Northumberland“, a title recognized by Emperor Ferdinand II.

Anton Francesco Lucini (1610-?1661)

Italian engraver and printmaker, best known for his etchings of the work Dell’Arcano del Mare by Sir Robert Dudley.   View of Pisa during the bridge game, engraving by Anton Francesco Lucini, drawing by Stefano della Bella (Rome, 1649) Lucini was born at Florence and he studied etching under Stefano della Bella and Jacques Callot, who had lived in Florence 1612–1621, and whose prints imparted a strong influence to Florentine printmakers.  Lucini worked at a series of engravings entitled Disegni della guerra, assedio dell’armata turchesca all’Isola di Malta l’anno MDXLV published in Bologna (1631). Then he worked at the monumental work Dell’arcano del mare by Sir Robert Dudley published in Florence 1646–1647. The distinctive Baroque style of Dudley’s charts is attributable to the elegant engraving of Antonio Francesco Lucini, who stated that he spent 12 years and used 5,000 pounds of copper to produce the plates of exceptional quality.