Bartolomeo Pareto

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 was located in a storage room in the library of the Roman College in 1877, and is notable for its depiction of Antillia, a phantom island said to exist in the Atlantic Ocean. According to the Association of Italian Collectors of Ancient Cartography, the highly ornate map would have been kept in a private collection and reserved for use by a small cadre of elites.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.maphistory.info/benincasa.html.
  2. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/108379959188199/photos/a.108383029187892.14023.108379959188199/896799157012938/.


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