Giovanni Leardo

Giovanni Leardo was a 15th-century Venetian geographer and cosmographer. Leardo made at least four mappae mundi, of which three survive today.[1]

Leardo's 1442 map is held at the Biblioteca Communale Library in Verona. A 1447 map does not survive, but a 1448 map is held at the Museo Civico at Vicenza.[2] A 1452 map was donated by Archer M. Huntington to the American Geographical Society, and is the oldest world map in the library there.[3]

References

1. Evelyn Edson (2007). The World Map, 1300-1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation. JHU Press. pp. 188–. ISBN 978-0-8018-8589-1.
2. Jim Siebold, The Leardo World Maps
3. Wright, John Kirtland (1928). The Leardo map of the world: 1452 or 1453, in the collections of the American geographical society. American Geographical Society.

External links

• Leardo Mappamundi 1452