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APPENDIX I

Giovanni Da Carignano’s map and the other

medieval nautical charts

s mentioned above, the map by Giovanni da Carignano was
destroyed. However, in a rare 1882 text of the Società Geografica
Italiana (Italian Geographic Society), self-published in Rome,
entitled Biografia dei viaggiatori italiani [Biography of Italian travelers],
written by Amat di San Filippo, there is a long appendix containing a
copious list of nautical charts, including the following, identified as
number 9:
9 - PRIEST GIOVANNI DA CARIGNANO.
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14 cen. (beginning) - Nautical chart MS; rectangular on three sides
projecting out in an irregular manner from E side; on parchment measuring

Planisphere by Giovanni Mauro Da Carignano.