Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 130

Title: THVSCIAE | DESCRIPTIO AVCTORE | HIERONYMO BELLARMATO. [A representation of Tuscany by Hieronymus Bellarmato]. (Panel under title cartouche with 12 lines of text:) "Me Ianus tenuit primus, formataque ab illo | Imposui leges populis, & nomina Ponto. | Inferno, & Supero: missos auxique colonos, | Imperiumq, Italos trans fines; fœdera natis | Dum servata meis, sed me discordia prćceps, | Romulć genti domitam servire coegit: | Que decus antique longo post tempore linguć | Auxilij male grata mei, male grata laborum | Abstulit, & mansit nomen quod Thura dedere: | Archades aut Lijdi quod vel mutare Pelasgi | Non ausi sacras quibus bas concessimus oras. | Thuscia dixi". [Janus was the first to rule me. Founded by him, I imposed laws on peoples and I gave names to the sea, the underworld and heaven. I grew by founding colonies, as also in power, exceeding Italian borders, as long as my sons remained my allies, but blind discord forced me to serve a mistress, namely the people of Romulus. The ornament of our meanwhile ancient language was cast aside by this mistress, ungrateful as she was for my help and achievements, but the name which the Thurians gave remained: we leave these holy coasts to the Archadians and Lydians, since the Pelasgi were not inclined to move elsewhere. I, Tuscany, have spoken]. (Middle right:) "Cum priuilegio". [With privilege]. (Low left:) "Elba, olim Ilua | Insula inexhaustis chalybum generosa metallis". [Elba, once Ilva, is an island with an inexhaustible supply of steel.] (Low right centre:) "Ansedonia, terminus | patrimonij D. Petri." [Ansidonia, the last home of St. Peter]. (Lower right:) "Coralium hic|nascitur". [Here grows coral].

Plate size: 320 x 497 mm
Scale: 1 : 750,000
Identification number: Ort 130 (Koeman/Meurer: 36, Karrow: 1/49, vdKrogtAN: 7200:31A).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1570L(AC)36 (225 copies printed) (sixth line from the bottom ends: finitimorum ; last line, centred like one line above it: Thrasumenum lacum litteris mandauit.),
1570L(B)36 (100 copies printed) (sixth line from bottom ends: finitimorű; last line, centred like one line above it: pulchrč Thrasumenum lacum litteris mandauit.),
1571L36 (275 copies printed) (sixth line from the bottom ends: finitimorű ; last line, centred like one line above it: Thrasumenum lacum litteris mandauit.),
1571/1573D36 (350 copies printed) (last line, in Gothic script like the entire text, centred like three lines above it: by Leander Albertus.),
1572G36Koler (pasted over p.36 of a 1570L edition; few copies printed)(last line, left aligned, partly in Gothic script: See Thrasimenum (lago di Perugia) sehr fein beschriben.),
1572/1573G36 (225 copies printed) (last line, centred like 6 lines above it: Leander Albertus.),
1572/1574F36 (225 copies printed) (last line, centred like 2 lines above it, in cursive script like the entire text: "Vous auez la description de ce pays au liure de Leandre Albert."),
1573L(A)47 (40 copies printed) (fifth line from the top ends: constat. ; last line, centred like one line above it: Campanus pulchrč Thrasumenum lacum litteris mandauit.),
1573L(B)47 (40 copies printed) (fifth line from the top ends: con- ; last line, centred like one line above it: Campanus pulchrč Thrasumenum lacum litteris mandauit.),
1574L47 (175 copies printed) (large page number, 11 mm; last line, non-italic like the entire text, centred like one line above it: Campanus pulchrč Thrasumenum lacum litteris mandauit.),
1575L47 (100 copies printed) (small page number, 7 mm; last line, italic like the entire text, centred like the line above it: "lacum litteris mandauit".),
1579L(A)66 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: pulchrč Thrasumenus lacum literis mandauit. ; 9th line from the bottom ends: cum),
1579L(B)66 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: pulchrč Thrasumenus lacum literis mandauit. ; 9th line from the bottom ends: ad-),
1580/1589G66 (350 copies printed) (last line, centred like 4 lines above it, mostly in Gothic script: See fein beschriben.),
1581F66 (400 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like the entire text: "liure de Leandre Albert."),
1584L72 (750 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: pulchrč Thrasumenum lacum literis mandauit.),
1587F72 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like the entire text: "la description de ce pays au liure de Leandre Albert."),
1588S72 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Guilielmo Postello , Volaterrano ,&c. Ioan Campano lindamente ha declarado el Lago Thrasumeno.),
1592L77 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: sumenum lacum literis mandauit.),
1595L80 (500 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: dylas lib.6.&c. Ioannes Campanus pulchrć Trasumenum lacum litteris mandauit.),
1598F82 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like the entire text: "la description de ce pays au liure de Leandre Albert."),
1598/1610/1613D57 (100 copies printed) (last line, centred like 3 lines above it, in cursive writing except for the proper name: "by" Leander Albertus.),
1601L80 (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: condylas lib.6.&c. Ioannes Campanus pulchrč Trasumenum lacum litteris mandauit.),
1602G83 (250 copies printed) (last line, centred like 4 lines above it, in Gothic script like the entire text: schen See fein beschriben.),
1602S83 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Postello, Volaterrano, &c. Ioan Campano lindamente ha declarado el Lago Thrasumeno.),
1603L83 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like the entire text: "condylas lib. 6. &c. Ioannes Campanus pulchrč Transumenum lacum litteris mandauit."),
1606E80 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Lake of "Perugia".),
1608/1612I89 (300 copies printed) (last line, in small font like two lines above it, left aligned: pato in Fiorenza l'antico nome di quella citta,& come su colońia Romana,& le cose antiche del suo contado & il rimanente.),
1609/1612L89 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like the entire text: "dylas lib. 6. &c. Ioannes Campanus pulchrč Transumenum lacum litteris mandauit."),
1609/1612/1641S89 (325 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: pano lindamente ha declarado el Lago Thrasumeno.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 8175.

States: 130.1: as described;
130.2: from 1579, coastline hachuring extended from about 2 to about 5 mm;
130.3: in 1595, "Saline" and "M. Polpi" added in lower right centre.

Cartographic sources: Girolamo Bellarmati or Begliarmati, 1493-1555 (Karrow 10/1, p. 78-80, Meurer p. 113), whose map was first published in 1536. Among the maps sent to Ortelius by Winghe on December 24, 1589, there was also a woodcut Tuscany map by Alitennio Gatta of 1588.

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