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Visconte Maggiolo
Summary
Visconte Maggiolo (1478 – after 1549), also spelled Maiollo and Maiolo, was a Genoese cartographer.
He was born in Genoa and maybe he was a fellow sailor of explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano. In 1511 he moved to Naples, where he produced three extant nautical atlases. Some historians say that he died of malaria in 1530; but archival documents show that he was still alive, in Genoa, at least in 1549, although he certainly was already dead in 1561.
In 1527, he created a map depicting Verrazzano's travels. This map had a major error (so-called "Verrazzano Sea" with his "Verrazzano Isthmus", as Giovanni did not accurately describe the North American continent. This error kept on showing up in maps for over a century. A copy of this 1527 map was destroyed during World War II.
There are numerous portolan charts, atlases and at least two other world maps made by Vesconte Maggiolo: one dated Genoa, 1531; another kept at a public library in Treviso (in Italian), is dated Genoa, 1549.
Although he specialized in the mapping of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea, Maggiolo was the first to report in his atlas of 1548 the toponym of the South American river Rio de Amaxones.
File:Maggiolo Italy as far as the mouth of the Tiber River, western Sicily, and the Adriatic coast.jpg|Italy, western Sicily and the Adriatic coast
File:Maggiolo North Africa, Europe, and part of Asia.jpg|North Africa, Europe and part of Asia
File:Maggiolo Africa, Asia, Europe, and the northeast extremity of the New World.jpg|Africa, Asia, Europe and part of the New World
File:Maggiolo Atlantic coast of Africa and Europe, the British Isles, and Iceland, including the Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Azores.jpg|Atlantic coast of Africa and Europe, the British Isles, and Iceland
File:Maggiolo Cosmographical planisphere, with Africa, Asia, and Europe in the center.jpg|''Cosmographical planisphere'', with Africa, Asia, and Europe in the center
File:Maggiolo Dedication leaf and Map of the island of Corsica.
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