ANGELINO DULCERT
'Angelino Dulcert' (fl. 1339) was a Mallorcan mapmaker whose portolan is the first known to have been produced in Palma, in 1339.
The portolan's keys and legends are written in Latin, and it contains features not usually found on Genoese or Venetian portolans.
It also attempts to represent Northern Europe and include information concerning Africa, thus moving away from the Mediterraneano-centric frame of reference that characterizes other portolans of the time.[1] It also gives the first recorded name of the island of Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands, as ''Insula de Lanzarotus Marocelus'', a reference to the Genoese navigator Lancelotto Malocello.
This article provided by Wikipedia. To edit the contents of this article, click here for original source.
psst.. try this: add to faves

العربية
中国
Français
Deutsch
Ελληνική
हिन्दी
Italiano
日本語
Português
Русский
Español