Pietro Vesconte (fl. 1310–1330) was a Genoese cartographer and geographer. A pioneer of the field of the portolan chart, he influenced Italian and Catalan...
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the world edited in the Virtual Mappa project. Italian geographer Pietro Vesconte was a pioneer of the field of the portolan chart. His nautical charts...
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inconsistent with the hexadecimal "web-safe" values). Flag of Bulgaria on Pietro Vesconte's 1321 nautical chart Flag of the Shishman dynasty west of Vidin on...
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spelled as "Georgia" was recorded in Italian on the mappa mundi of Pietro Vesconte dated AD 1320. In early appearances in the Latin world, the name was...
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Map of the Holy Land, Pietro Vesconte, 1321, showing the allotments of the tribes of Israel. Described by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld as "the first non-Ptolemaic...
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crescent of the 14th century, reported by Marino Sanudo (ca. 1321), Pietro Vesconte (1325), Angelino Dulcerta (1339) and the Catalan Atlas (1385) White...
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been conserved for a long time; cartographic works of the Genoese Pietro Vesconte, the illustrator of the work of Marino Sanudo; the chart of Francisco...
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Sancta (Latin) الأرض المقدسة (Arabic) Map of the Holy Land (Terra Sancta), Pietro Vesconte, 1321. Described by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld as "the first non-Ptolemaic...
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first mention of the name Georgia is in Italian on the mappa mundi of Pietro Vesconte dated 1320. At the early stage of its appearance in the Latin world...
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Atlantic islands litter the early 14th-century portolan charts of Pietro Vesconte and Angelino Dulcert. Some historians believe the legend of Antillia...
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