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Res nauticae: Mediterranean Seafaring and Written Culture in the Renaissance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

John M. McManamon*
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Loyola University Chicago

Abstract

In characteristic fashion, the Iter Italicum of Paul Oskar Kristeller reveals the richness of Renaissance thought on seafaring. The literature on seafaring conserved in manuscripts cataloged in the Iter Italicum ranges from commentary on ancient seafaring to eulogies of contemporary heroes to works on mechanics and engineering with unusual proposals for naval weaponry. Those manuscripts likewise highlight the Renaissance conceptualization of seafaring as an art and a creative tension in Renaissance scholarship between looking back to the past and looking forward to the future.

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1 Kristeller, Paul Oskar, Iter Italicum: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and Other Libraries (Leiden, 1963–92). I would like to thank the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA and Loyola University Chicago for generously supporting the research on which this article is based. I likewise thank Fr. Joseph Lienhard, SJ, and the Traditio referees for their helpful assistance.Google Scholar

2 By July 1418, Guarino da Verona wrote to Alberto della Sale to praise the eulogy that his student Giustiniani had delivered. Seeda Verona, Guarino, Epistolario, ed. Sabbadini, Remigio, Miscellanea di storia veneta 8, 11, 13 (Venice, 1915–19), 1:196–98. On Zeno's career, see, e.g., Lane, Frederic C., Venice: A Maritime Republic (London, 1973), 189–96, 227–28. After studying Latin and Greek, Leonardo Giustiniani began a life in public service at age nineteen. Though his humanist corpus is modest, this oration struck a responsive chord by illustrating the value of humanist studies in preparing ethical public servants. For Leonardo Giustiniani, see, e.g., Labalme, Patricia H., Bernardo Giustiniani: A Venetian of the Quattrocento, Uomini e dottrine 13 (Rome, 1969), 8–10, 17–90; King, Margaret L., Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance (Princeton, 1986), 383–85; Fabbri, Renata, “Il proemio (parzialmente inedito) di Leonardo Giustinian agli Statuti di Bergamo Veneziana,” in Filologia umanistica per Gianvito Resta, ed. Fera, Vincenzo and Ferrali, Giacomo, Medioevo e umanesimo 94–96 (Padua, 1997), 1:601–9; andPignatti, Franco, Dizionario biografico degli italiani (henceforth DBI) (Rome, 1960–), 57:249–55. On the funeral speech, see also Manlio Pastore Stocchi, “Scuola e cultura umanistica fra due secoli,” in Storia della cultura veneta, vol. 3, Dal primo Quattrocento al Concilio di Trento (Vicenza, 1980), part 1:118–19; andMcManamon, John M., Funeral Oratory and the Cultural Ideals of Italian Humanism (Chapel Hill, NC, 1989), 88–91. In the sixteenth century, Pietro Giustiniani claimed that his ancestor Leonardo delivered the speech in Greek and in Latin. Renaissance Seafaring and Written CultureGoogle Scholar

3 Zeno, Iacopo, “Vita Caroli Zeni,” in Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, ed. Zonta, Gasparo, n.s., 19 (Bologna, 1941), part 6, fasc. 1. In the introduction (vii–x) Zonta described six codices that conserve the biography: New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, cod. 2 (dedication copy); Padua, Bibl. del Seminario, cod. 46 (Iacopo's personal copy); Vienna, Nationalbibl., cod. Lat. 3315 (copied by “Io. Ny.” Iohannes Nydenna de Confluentia, who worked in Padua); Munich, Staatsbibl., cod. Clm 76; and Venice, BN Marciana, cod. Zan. lat. 408 (2029). The sixth was a copy in Turin (BN, cod. Q.V.1), destroyed in the 1904 fire. Kristeller, , Iter, 2:287b, adds a sixteenth-century copy, Venice, Museo Civico Correr, cod. Correr 448. Zonta suggested that Zeno may have kept for himself the better Paduan codex. William Loring Andrews bought the Yale codex at a Leavitt's auction in New York in 1886 and made it part of his bequest to the library in 1894. The manuscript was previously owned by the Trivulzio family, who acquired many codices from private and ecclesiastical libraries in Milan. On the Andrews donation, seeVan Name, Addison, Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University (New Haven, CT, 1913), vi–vii, 1–3. For the career of Iacopo Zeno, see, e.g., Bertalot, Ludwig and Campana, Augusto, “Gli scritti di Iacopo Zeno e il suo elogio di Ciriaco d'Ancona,” in Studien zum italienischen und deutschen Humanismus, ed. Kristeller, Paul Oskar(Rome, 1975), 2:311–23; andKing, Margaret L., Venetian Humanism (Princeton, 1986), 166–67, 447–49.Google Scholar

4 See, e.g., de Landaluce, Manuel Sánchez Ortiz, Estudios sobre las Argonáuticas Orificas, Classical and Byzantine Monographs 36 (Amsterdam, 1996), 35. Fifty-three codices with the Greek poem of 1376 hexameters are listed and discussed stemmatically. The oldest existing codex, from ca. 1388, is Florence, Bibl. Laurenziana, cod. Conv. Soppr. 4. Kristeller, , Iter, 6:592b, cataloged Madrid, BN, cod. 4565. For the scholarly career of Konstantinos Lascaris, who shrewdly used Greek manuscripts surviving in the monasteries of Messina, seeManzano, Teresa Martínez, Constantino Láscaris, semblanza de un humanista bizantino (Madrid, 1998); andCeresa, Massimo, DBI, 63:781–85. Madrid, BN, cod. 4621, has Lascaris's eyewitness account of the fall of Constantinople and his capture by the Turks. Late in life, Lascaris willed his library to “the Senate and the people of Messina,” and it remained in the cathedral until 1674. After a revolt, the library was confiscated and moved to Palermo. The books were incorporated into the library of Juan Francisco Pacheco, duke of Uceda and viceroy of Sicily (1687–96), and passed as the Fondo Uceda to the Royal Library in Madrid in 1712/13 and then to the BN. Of the ninety-nine codices from Messina, more than eighty were copied or owned by Lascaris. Ceresa notes the wide respect that Lascaris's Greek grammar earned; in Thomas More's work, Raphael Hythlodaeus took the book to Utopia in order to teach its citizens the language.Google Scholar

5 Two of the manuscripts conserving Crivelli's text, Florence, Bibl. Riccardiana, cod. Ricc. 684 (Kristeller, Iter, 1:197b), and Holkham Hall, cod. 433 (Kristeller, Iter, 4:44b–45a), have a verse dedication in hexameters. There is also a copy in a codex that once belonged to Battista Panetti, Ferrara, Bibl. Ariostea, cod. II.135, fols. 135–55. The work was published anonymously at Venice in 1523. SeeSmith, Leslie F., “Lodrisio Crivelli of Milan and Aeneas Silvius, 1457–1464,” Studies in the Renaissance 9 (1962): 3235; and Petrucci, Franca, DBI, 31:146–51, who called attention to Pandoni's epigram in Vatican City, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana (henceforth BAV), cod. Urb. lat. 709, fol. 68v.Google Scholar

6 Messina, Museo Nazionale, cod. XIII.C.7, 1048. The codex has historiated initials, corrections, and notes by Settimuleio and a second hand, and it belongs to a group that ultimately descends from Florence, Bibl. Laurenziana, cod. Plut. 39, 38, copied by Niccolò Niccoli sometime between 1416 and 1429. Settimuleio copied the Messina manuscript for another of Leto's students, Marcus Fabius Valens Anagninus. Leto lectured on the text of the Argonautica and left corrections in a copy of the editio princeps published at Bologna in 1474. On Messina XIII.C.7, 1048, seeCostanza, Salvatore and Foti, Maria Bianca, I codici manoscritti del Museo Nazionale di Messina, Università degli Studi di Messina, Istituto di Paleografia e Diplomatica, Quaderni di Esercitazione 1 (Messina, 1974), 2324; Costanza, Salvatore, “Il cod. ms. 31–1048 del Museo Nazionale di Messina testimone degli Argonautica di Valerio Fiacco,” Archivio storico messinese, 3rd ser., 26–27 (1975–76): 231–36; andKristeller, , Iter, 6:27a. For Virgil, seeRebert, Homer Franklin, “The Felicity of Infelix in Virgil's Aeneid,” Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 59 (1928): 57–71. In 1416, Poggio Bracciolini discovered at St. Gall a ninth-century manuscript of books I–IV.377 of Valerius Flaccus. The codex Sangallensis, now lost, has to be reconstructed from a trio of copies made during that trip, one of which (Madrid, BN, cod. 8514) is an autograph of Poggio. For the manuscript tradition of Valerius Flaccus, seeReynolds, L. D. and Wilson, N. G., Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1974), 121–22; andScaffai, Marco, “Rassegna di studi su Valerio Fiacco (1938–1982),” in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung, tom. 2, vol. 32, part 4, Principat: Sprache und Literatur (Literatur der julisch-claudischen und der flavischen Zeit [Forts.]), ed. Haase, Wolfgang(Berlin, 1986), 2375–88.Google Scholar

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8 Nuremberg, Stadtbibl., cod. Cent. V.18; seeKristeller, , Iter, 3:665b. The rare printed edition ofRhodios, Apollonios, Argonautica (Frankfurt, 1546), has a preface by Melanchthon. On the poem and humanist interest in the text, see, e.g., Resta, Gianvito, Apollonio Rodio e gli umanisti (Estratto da Studi in onore di Anthos Ardizzoni) (Rome, 1980); andClare, R. J., The Path of the “Argo”: Language, Imagery, and Narrative in the “Argonautica” of Apollonius Rhodius, Cambridge Classical Studies (Cambridge, 2002). Resta proposed that Andronico Callisto made the rough Latin translation of the text that is conserved in a notebook of Fonzio (Florence, Bibl. Riccardiana, cod. 539). See alsoCaroti, Stefano and Zamponi, Stefano, Lo scrittoio di Bartolomeo Fonzio umanista fiorentino, Documenti sulle arti del libro 10 (Milan, 1974), 29, 47; andZaccaria, Raffaella, DBI, 36:812. For the contribution of Giano Lascaris to the printed edition of Apollonios Rhodios, seeMeschini, Anna, “La prolusione fiorentina di Giano Làskaris,” in Miscellanea di studi in onore di Vittore Branca, vol. 3, Umanesimo e rinascimento a Firenze e Venezia, Biblioteca dell’Archivum Romanicum 180 (Florence, 1983), 1:70–71.Google Scholar

9 Curtius, Ernst Robert, “The Ship of the Argonauts,” Essays on European Literature, trans. Kowal, Michael (Princeton, 1973), 465–96; Rostropowicz, Joanna, “The Argonautica by Apollonios of Rhodes as a Nautical Epos: Remarks on the Realities of Navigation,” Eos 78 (1990): 107–17; Casson, Lionel, Ships and Seafaring in Ancient Times (Austin, TX, 1994), 66–67; Jackson, Steven, “Argo: The First Ship?” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 140 (1997): 249–57; Janni, Pietro, Il mare degli Antichi, Storia e civiltà 40 (Bari, 1996), 56–57, 102n23, 167–68n90, 340–41, 345n26; andClare, , Path of the “Argo,” 27–28, 166–72, 175–79. Curtius, 490–92, notes that Statius and Dante supplied a god's-eye view of the hull from beneath the surface of the sea. In addition to tenons and cables, the text of Apollonios discusses the felling of trees for the hull, the shaping of timbers, the required smoothness of the rudder, techniques for navigating, techniques for combining oars and sails to propel the vessel depending on the direction and strength of the wind, and the use of greased wooden rollers to launch a vessel.Google Scholar

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11 For Alberti's attempt and Fausto's comment, see, e.g., Concina, Ennio, Navis, Saggi, 738 (Turin, 1990), 36, 32. I am presently preparing a monograph on the lago di Nemi explorations. In the later Renaissance, Pirro Ligorio went to the lake to copy an inscription and then sketched a fanciful reconstruction of the cult center of Diana; seeConcina, , Navis, 190. A treatise by the Jesuit Claude-François Menestrier (1631–1705), Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae statua exposita, copied in several drafts and final form into a codex now in Urbania, has, together with its analysis of the puzzling iconography of the Ephesos Artemis and her abundant breasts, general commentary on the cult of Diana. Menestrier's treatise is conserved in Urbania, Bibl. Comunale, cod. 23, and it was first printed at Rome in 1657. See, e.g., Kristeller, , Iter, 6:245a;Burke, Peter, “Images as Evidence in Seventeenth-Century Europe,” Journal of the History of Ideas 64 (2003): 291–92; andDaly, Peter M. and Richard Dimler, G. SJ, eds., Corpus Librorum Emblematum: The Jesuit Series (Toronto, 2005), 4:141–43.Google Scholar

12 For De Marchi's attempt, see, e.g., Keller, Alex, “Archimedean Hydrostatic Theorems and Salvage Operations in 16th-Century Venice,” Technology and Culture 12 (1971): 605–7; Concina, , Navis, 33, 105–7, 189; andLehmann, L. Th., “Underwater Archaeology in 15th- and 16th-Century Italy,” International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 20 (1991): 9–11.Google Scholar

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14 Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia, cod. 9/2532 (formerly Cortes 349); seeKristeller, , Iter, 4:510a.Google Scholar

15 Cambridge, Harvard Univ., Houghton Library, cod. Lat. 2; seeKristeller, , Iter, 5:226a. On Pietro's poem and the later prose version, see, e.g., Petrucci, Livio, “Per una nuova edizione dei Bagni di Pozzuoli,” Studi mediolatini e volgari 21 (1973): 240–42, 256–68; Fikret K. Yegül, “The Thermo-Mineral Complex at Baiae and De Balneis Puteolanis,” The Art Bulletin 78 (1996): 137–62; andPetrella, Giancarlo, L'officina del geografo: La “Descrittione di tutta Italia” di Leandro Alberti e gli studi geografico-antiquari tra Quattro e Cinquecento, con un saggio di edizione (Lombardia-Toscana) (Milan, 2004), 161–62, 521n529. The editio princeps had a letter of Griffolini to Pius II, Pietro's poem, and the prose rendering entitled Libellus de mirabilibus civitatis Putheolorum et locorum vicinorum ac de nominibus virtutibusque balneorum. It was published by Arnaldus de Bruxella at Naples in 1475. Petrella noted that there are 21 manuscripts and 10 editions from 1475–1607. While working in Rome, Griffolini visited the baths at Pozzuoli for their therapeutic effects. See DBI, 59:382–85.Google Scholar

16 Naples, BN, cod. V.D.26, fols. 36–88v; seeKristeller, , Iter, 1:415b: “[fol. 35v] … MCCCCLXIX idib. septembribus in nave Andree Cora transcribere incepi ego Petrus Delphinus librum Apiani Alexandri … [fol. 36] X kl. octobris … liber exaratus est … eo quo supra Chiephaloniam in Iacinti conspectu navigabam una cum Andrea Corato Gabrieleque Mothoneo[?] … an … MCCCCLXVIIII.” On Pietro Dolfin (1427–1506), who likewise traveled the Aegean to learn more about the sea and was named admiral of the galleys al trafego in 1488, seeZaccaria, Raffaella, DBI, 40:562–65; andBodnar, Edward W., “Ciriaco's Cycladic Diary,” in Ciriaco d'Ancona e la cultura antiquaria dell'Umanesimo (Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studio, Ancona, 6–9 febbraio 1992), ed. Paci, Gianfranco and Sconocchia, Sergio, Accademia Marchigiana di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti, Collana Progetto Adriatico 2 (Reggio Emilia, 1998), 51–53, 62–63n13, where Bodnar acknowledged learning of the Naples manuscript from Kristeller.Google Scholar

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18 “Notizia del ‘vascello di Caligola’ presso al lago di Nemi,” Montpellier, Faculté de Médecine, cod. H.103, fols. 157–58. SeeLibri, Guglielmo, “Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de l’École de Médecine de Montpellier,” Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques des Départements (Paris, 1849), 1:322–23; and Mazzatinti, Giuseppe, Inventario dei manoscritti italiani delle biblioteche di Francia, Indici e Cataloghi 5 (Rome, 1886–88), 3:64. On Ligorio's identification of Caligula as the sponsor, see alsoBarnabèi, Felice, “III. Nemi – Delle antichità scoperte nel fondo del lago,” Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei: Classe di scienze morali, storiche, e filologiche, 5th ser., 3 (1895), part 2, Notizie degli scavi, 363–65, 394–95; andUcelli, Guido, Le navi di Nemi, 2nd ed. (1950; repr., Rome, 1983), 285–86. Alberti and DeMarchi had ascribed the ships to Trajan, while Flavio Biondo and Stephan Vinand Pigghe ascribed them to Tiberius. Existing stamps from the wreck read: C CAESARIS AVG GERMAN, C CAESARIS AVG GERMANICI.Google Scholar

19 On Francesco Gualdo and his correspondence with Cassiano Dal Pozzo, see, e.g., the article ofMassimi, Maria Elena, DBI, 60:154–56. In addition to filling a museum with antiquities in Rome, Gualdo pushed for the preservation of Roman monuments along the Via Appia and in his family's hometown of Rimini. For Dal Pozzo's career, his multi-volume Museum Chartaceum, and his intended editions of Ligorio, see, e.g., Haskell, Francis, Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque (London, 1963), 98–114; Stumpo, Enrico, DBI, 32:209–13; Bell, Janis C., “Cassiano dal Pozzo's Copy of the Zaccolini Manuscripts,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 51 (1988): 122; andHerklotz, Ingo, Cassiano Dal Pozzo und die Archäologie des 17. Jahrhunderts, Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana 28 (Munich, 1999).Google Scholar

20 BAV, cod. Barb. lat. 5085, fols. 63–240 (copied by Fausto Caffarelli from the Turin manuscript of Ligorio's encyclopedia); Montpellier, Faculté de Médecine, cod. H. 103, fols. 47–156 (copied by Dal Pozzo from the codex in the Barberini Library); and Modena, Bibl. Estense, cod. Campori 365 (Gamma P 1, 6), conserve Ligorio's Della nautica antica. Montpellier cod. H.267, fols. 144–60, said by Mazzatinti to have the Ligorio treatise (“Discorso su la nautica degli antichi [di Pirro Ligorio]”), has, according to Libri's catalog entry, a “Discorso sulla nave Argo” and may be an excerpt of the excerpt. Dal Pozzo copied into Montpellier cod. H.103 the text of Della nautica antica, without illustrations and with editorial interventions, from the codex into which the nuncio Fausto Caffarelli (1595–1651) copied for Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597–1679) the letter “N” from Ligorio's encyclopedia. In 1654, to assist a debate about triremes, Dal Pozzo prepared and sent to Carlo Dati in Florence the illustrated Modena manuscript. He had sent another copy in 1650 to Johannes Scheffer in Sweden, who was working on his 1654 book, De militia navali veterum libri quatuor. Both Montpellier codices have the Albani family library for their provenance. In 1703, Clement XI (Albani) contracted for the Vatican to purchase Dal Pozzo's library, but when the Vatican came up short on funds, he arranged that his nephew, Cardinal Alessandro, should buy it. SeeLibri, , “Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de l’École de Médecine de Montpellier,” 1:322–23, 391–92; Mazzatinti, , Inventario dei manoscritti italiani, 3:64, 66–67; Vermeule, Cornelius C., “The Dal Pozzo-Albani Drawings of Classical Antiquities: Notes on Their Content and Arrangement,” The Art Bulletin 38 (1956): 31–37; Ellenius, Allan, De arte pingendi: Latin Art Literature in Seventeenth-Century Sweden and Its International Background, Lychnos-Bibliotek 19 (Uppsala, 1960), 100–101, 111–19; Bell, Janis C., “Cassiano dal Pozzo's Copy of the Zaccolini Manuscripts,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 51 (1988): 108–11; andHerklotz, , Cassiano Dal Pozzo, 58–59, 125, 179–80. The two redactions of Ligorio's encyclopedia are conserved in Naples, BN, cod. XIII.B.1–10 (over 5,000 pages from 1553) and Turin, Archivio di Stato, cod. J.a.II.7 (over 12,000 pages from 1566–83). The gardens that Ligorio designed at Tivoli for Ippolito d'Este are ample proof of his interest in hydraulic engineering. For Ligorio's career, see, e.g., Coffin, David R., Pirro Ligorio: The Renaissance Artist, Architect, and Antiquarian (with a Checklist of Drawings) (University Park, PA, 2004); and the article in DBI, 65:109–14. Ligorio showed special interest in enormous Hellenistic polyremes; seeConcina, , Navis, 193. For fantastic Renaissance reconstructions of Roman warships, see, e.g., Basch, Lucien, “Ancient Wrecks and the Archaeology of Ships,” International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 1 (1972): 3–6; andConcina, , Navis, 183–94.Google Scholar

21 Giraldi's De re nautica libellus was published at Basel by Michael Isengrin in 1540. For Giraldi's career, seeLehmann, L. Th., “The Polyeric Quest: Renaissance and Baroque Theories about Ancient Men-of-War,” (PhD diss., Univ. of Amsterdam, 1995), 4951; and Foà, Simona, DBI, 56:452–55. Calcagnini's De re nautica was published posthumously in his Opera aliquot by Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius at Basel in 1544. Calcagnini served as an apostolic protonotary, taught courses in rhetoric based on Cicero, and read widely in scientific works later in life. His encyclopedic interests mirrored those of Pliny, on whose works he wrote a commentary. For Calcagnini's career, see Marchetti, Valerio, De Ferrari, Augusto, and Mutini, Claudio, DBI, 16:492–98; Zilli, Luigia, “Lodovico Dolce e Jean-Antoine de Baïf interpreti del Miles gloriosus,” in Saggi e ricerche sul teatro francese del Cinquecento, ed. Giovangigli, Orazio Costa and Petrocchi, Giorgio(Florence, 1985), 104–6; Concina, , Navis, 189–90, 203; andLehmann, , Polyeric Quest, 51–54.Google Scholar

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26 The work is conserved in a miscellany in Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibl., cod. H.195; seeKristeller, , Iter, 3:377b. Tebaldini was numbered among the cittadini originari of Venice. For Barbarigo's dogado from 1484–1501, see, e.g., Lane, , Venice: A Maritime Republic, 267–69; andGaeta, Franco, DBI, 6:47–49. A seventeenth-century codex in Gorizia, Archivio Storico e Bibl. Provinciale, cod. 278 (Kristeller, , Iter, 6:8b) has a Dell'impero della Serenissima Repubblica Veneta sul mare Adriatico attributed to Andrea Barbarigo. Venice, BN Marciana, cod. Marc. ital. VII.212 (7469), and Venice, Museo Civico Correr, cod. Correr 197 (Kristeller, , Iter, 6:268a), have a similar work attributed toSarpi, Paolo, Dell'impero della Seren. Rep. Veneta sul mare Adriatico. In 1612, Sarpi sent five unpublished briefs to the government with a novel justification for Venice's Adriatic empire. His only published discussion of the subject occurred in his 1617 Supplimento dell'Historia degli Usocchi. There is also a pseudonymous letter, De Jurisdictione Serenissimae Reipublicae Venetae in Mare Adriaticum epistola Francisci de Ingenuis, Germani, ad Liberium Vincentium, Hollandum, published in 1619, that is often attributed to Sarpi but was probably not written by him. On Sarpi's contributions, seede Vivo, Filippo, “Historical Justifications of Venetian Power in the Adriatic,” Journal of the History of Ideas 64 (2003): 171–75.Google Scholar

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66 The BL has two manuscripts: cod. Add. 25882 with drawings and the preface to Sforza (Kristeller, , Iter, 4:116a); and cod. Add. 29255 with color diagrams and the preface to Ferrante Somma (Kristeller, , Iter, 4:118b). The copy in Florence, BN, cod. Palat. 734, is dedicated to Cosimo I; that in Vienna, Nationalbibl., cod. Lat. 10779, to Fugger; and that in Yale Univ., Beinecke Library, cod. 562, to Colonna (seeKristeller, , Iter, 5:280b, and the online catalog athttp://brbl-net.library.yale.edu/pre1600ms/docs/pre1600.ms562.htm, accessed 4 May 2015). The copy in Milan, Bibl. Ambrosiana, cod. L 7 sup., is dedicated to Carafa (Kristeller, , Iter, 1:300b, 2:531b). There is one manuscript in Naples dated 1570 dedicated to Andrea Marino (BN, cod. XII.D.46; seeKristeller, , Iter, 1:406a), one in Ferrara dated 1572 (Bibl. Comunale Ariostea, cod. II.437; seeKristeller, , Iter, 1:54a), one in Princeton with a preface dated 1567 (Princeton Univ., cod. Kane 54), one in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC (Med. and Ren. Misc., Acq. 4325, without a shelf number), and one from the sixteenth century in Lane's personal collection (Kristeller, , Iter, 5:422a). In addition to cod. Patetta 260 (1559), the Vatican Library has cod. Vat. lat. 8097 (before 1582?), cod. Vat. lat. 5360 dedicated to Caracciolo in 1582, and cod. Vat. lat. 10334 dated s. XVII. Stornajolo's catalog of the Urbinate fondo adds cod. Urb. lat. 1423 (autogr. 1569 dedicated to Francesco de’ Rainosa) and cod. Urb lat. 1436 (autogr. 1571 dedicated to Francesco Maria II della Rovere), while José Ruysschaert adds BAV, cod. Ottob. lat. 1358 (autogr. 1570). The copy in Siena, Bibl. Comunale degli Intronati, cod. L.VI.41, does not have a date (Kristeller, , Iter, 2:158b), while the copy in Osimo, Bibl. del Collegio, cod. 13, is dated s. XVII. Lane cited from his sixteenth-century copy in “Oceanic Expansion: Force and Enterprise in the Creation of Oceanic Commerce,” in “The Tasks of Economic History,” supplement, Journal of Economic History 10 (1950): 19. The missing codex from Vaduz, Sammlungen des regierenden Fürsten von Liechtenstein, cod. 165–2–16 (Kristeller, , Iter, 4:316a), was dated 1568 and may be the codex now in Vienna or New Haven. The missing codex from the Vatican's Archivio Segreto, cod. Misc. Arm. III.101 (Kristeller, , Iter, 6:304a), attributed the treatise to “Costantino Cesareo.” Cesareo was born in Rome, entered the Benedictines where he became a priest, and resided at the Benedictine monastery of SS. Severino e Sossio in Naples. On the Urbino codices, seeStornajolo, Cosimus, Codices Urbinates Latini, vol. 3, Codices 1001–1779 (Rome, 1921), 322, 329. On Cesareo autographs, seeRuysschaert, , “Costantino Gaetano, O.S.B., chasseur de manuscrits: contribution à l'histoire de trois bibliothèques romaines du XVIIe s., l'Aniciana, l'Alessandrina, et la Chigi,” in Mélanges Eugène Tisserant, vol. 7, Bibliothèque Vaticane (Deuxième partie), Studi e testi 237 (Vatican City, 1964), 281–82. Florence, Bibl. Laurenziana, cod. Ashb. 588, and cod. Ashb. 1471, are also autographs of Cesareo with exegetical works. Kretschmer's characterization is found in Die italienischen Portolane des Mittelalters: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kartographie und Nautik, Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Meereskunde und des geographischen Instituts an der Universität Berlin 13 (1909; repr., Hildesheim, 1962), 229–30. He gives the full title of the treatise: L'arte del navigare con il regimento de la Tramontana e del Sole e la vera regola et osservanza del flusso e reflusso delle acque sotto breve compendio nuovamente ridotta per Agostino Cesareo. Early in the seventeenth century, Bartolomeo Crescentio published his Nautica mediterranea (Rome, 1602; 2nd ed., Rome, 1607), which has information on shipbuilding and a portolan chart that attempts to correct traditional charts by calculating magnetic declination. Crescentio was an engineer in papal service who traveled the Mediterranean on papal galleys and other vessels, used his on-board experience as a source for his theories, and argued that a naval architect should direct the work of ship carpenters. See, e.g., Kretschmer, , Die italienischen Portolane, 230;Concina, , Navis, 8, 159, 190; andAstengo, , La cartografia nautica mediterranea (n. 41 above), 55–56.Google Scholar

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73 BAV, cod. Ottob. lat. 2447, fols. 42–45, 48–63; seeKristeller, , Iter, 6:381b. Alvise/Luigi Agostini/Augustini, a notary in the Ducal chancery, served as secretary to the Venetian ambassador to England in 1549.Google Scholar

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79 Heidelberg, Universitätsbibl., cod. Heid. 3380 (formerly 369, 306). SeeSillib, Rudolf, “David Hoeschels Beziehungen zur Heidelberger Palatina,” Zentralblatt für Bibliothekwesen 37 (1920): 174–76; and Kristeller, , Iter, 3:574a. For Skylax, see, e.g., Kretschmer, , Die italienischen Portolane, 152–56; Peretti, Aurelio, Il Periplo di Scilace: Studio sul primo portolano del Mediterraneo (Pisa, 1979); Campbell, Tony, “Portolan Charts from the Late Thirteenth Century to 1500,” in History of Cartography, vol. 1, Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, ed. Harley, J. B. and Woodward, David(Chicago, 1987), 380–89; andRoller, , Through the Pillars, 8–9, 14–15, 19–20.Google Scholar

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82 Genoa, Bibl. Durazzo, cod. 148 (B.III.8), fasc. 2, fol. 3; seeKristeller, , Iter, 1:246b, 2:523a, 6:7a.Google Scholar

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84 Leiden, Bibl. der Rijksuniversiteit, cod. Voss. lat. F.41; seeKristeller, , Iter, 4:367b. A facsimile edition of the account in the Leiden manuscript, with a French translation, was edited by Pierre Valière and published at Nantes in 1974 and at Paris in 1976. That edition, together with an English translation of Peter Schreurs, was published at Manila in 2002. The National Historical Institute in Manila also published the text as edited by Karl-Heinz Wionzek and translated by Pedro Sastre in 2000.Google Scholar

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87 For Martelli's work, seeKristeller, , Iter, 4:648ab; and Fante, Alessandra Del, “Un trattato inedito di Ugolino Martelli sulle maree,” Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza di Firenze 9, fasc. 2 (1984): 3–12. For the Pierpont Morgan manuscript with Sagri's treatise, seeKristeller, , Iter, 5:347b. The copy of Sagri's treatise in the Bell Collection at the University of Minnesota, Bell 1570/Sa, is titled “Il chartigiatore.” Sagri calls himself a “marinaro raguseo” and explains that he wrote the book for “quello che de’ avere la chura di dare il chamino alla nave e chondurla fino a la bocha del porto.” Sagri also wrote a work on tides that was printed at Venice in 1574. Del Fante, “Un trattato,” 6–7, notes printed treatises on tides by Federico Delfino (Venice, 1559) and Girolamo Borri (Lucca, 1561). See alsoTucci, , “La pratica della navigazione” (n. 38 above), 531; andCampbell, Tony, “Chronicle for 2001–2002,” Imago Mundi 54 (2002): 179.Google Scholar

88 BAV, cod. Borg. V; seeKristeller, , Iter, 6:385b. On the map and others like it, see further Kretschmer, , Die italienischen Portolane, 140; Roberto Almagià, Planisferi, carte nautiche, e affini dal secolo XIV al XVII esistenti nella Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Monumenta Cartographica Vaticana 1 (Vatican City, 1944), 32–40; andWoodward, David, “Medieval Mappaemundi,”, in The History of Cartography, vol. 1, ed. Harley, and Woodward, , 288–370. For the attribution of the Borgiana map to Bianco, see Almagià. For the attribution to Angelo Freducci, son of Conte, seeAstengo, , La cartografia nautica mediterranea (n. 41 above), 101–3, 110–12, who develops a thesis first proposed byCaraci, Giuseppe, “The Italian Cartographers of the Benincasa and Freducci Families and the So-Called Borgiana Map of the Vatican Library,” Imago Mundi 10 (1953): 33–42. On mapmaking and its political, military, and economic implications, see, e.g., Buisseret, , The Mapmakers’ Quest, 49–151. Buisseret, 19, 71–72, discussed the importance of Fra Mauro's workshop in adding mathematical coordinates to the portolan charting system when mapping the Indian subcontinent. For maps in codices with Ptolemy's Geography, see, e.g., Swerdlow, N. M., “The Recovery of the Exact Sciences of Antiquity: Mathematics, Astronomy, Geography,” in Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture, ed. Grafton, Anthony(Washington, DC, 1993), 157–65.Google Scholar

89 Munich, Staatsbibl., cod. Icon. 137; seeKristeller, , Iter, 6:531b. On Portuguese contributions, seeBuisseret, , The Mapmakers’ Quest, 73–82. Vaz Dourado formed part of a relatively small number of Portuguese cartographers who produced a relatively large number of atlases.Google Scholar

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91 Sample codices of Buondelmonti's work are conserved in Venice, BN Marciana, cod. Marc. lat. X.123 (3784), cod. Marc. lat. X.124 (3177), cod. Marc. lat. X.215 (3773), cod. Marc. lat. XIV.45 (4595); and Venice, Museo Civico Correr, cod. Correr 1335, copied in Venice in 1755. On the codices, seeKristeller, , Iter, 2:231b, 2:232b, 2:263b, 2:287b, 6:273a–b. See further Almagià, Planisferi, 105–17 (who discusses manuscripts with the redactions of Liber insularum and Descriptio Cretae); Weiss, Roberto, DBI, 15:198–200; andHowse, and Sanderson, , The Sea Chart, 16–17.Google Scholar

92 Madrid, BN, cod. 788; seeKristeller, , Iter, 4:520b. For the manuscript and its contents, see now Polto, , La Sicilia di Tiburzio Spannocchi, esp. xxvi–l. Spannocchi recommended the use of roving lookouts on horseback, fixed guards in watchtowers, and fortifications for harbors and anchorages. Spannochi's detailed watercolor illustrations include depictions of contemporary vessels.Google Scholar

93 BAV, cod. Vat. lat. 4807. On the codex, seeKretschmer, , Die italienischen Portolane, 224–25; Almagià, , Planisferi, 134–35; andKristeller, , Iter, 2:329b.Google Scholar

94 Campbell, , “Portolan Charts from the Late Thirteenth Century to 1500,” 376n50, 428–45, who characterized the evidence that charts were used on board as “overwhelming.” As early as 1464, Benedetto Cotrugli gave indications of conceptualizing this way of navigating in his De navigatione.Google Scholar

95 Astengo, , La cartografia nautica mediterranea, 107: “porti et sembianze di terre non sono tratte niuna de la charta, ma sonno tochate chon mano, et vegiute cholli occhi.”Google Scholar

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97 Parma, Bibl. Palatina, cod. Parm. 1612; and Milan, Bibl. Ambrosiana, cod. Sala del Prefetto 10, 29 (Kristeller, , Iter, 6:64a). See alsoKretschmer, , Die italienischen Portolane, 121–22.Google Scholar

98 For example, Milan, Bibl. Ambrosiana, cod. J 96 sup., now Sala del Prefetto 2, 39 (Kristeller, , Iter, 6:42a), and cod. Sala del Prefetto 2, 38 (dated 1443) (Kristeller, , Iter, 6:63b). See alsoKretschmer, , Die italiensiche Portolane, 127–29; Almagià, Planisferi, 42, who listed further codices in Venice, BN Marciana, cod. Marc. ital. VI.2121 (5694, signed and dated 1426), Florence, Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere “La Colombaria,” cod. 229 (signed and dated 1446), BAV, cod. Ross. 676 on paper (attributed); andCampbell, , “Portolan Charts from the Late Thirteenth Century to 1500,” 421, 425, who noted that Giroldi's atlas of 1426 had enlarged views of the Adriatic and Aegean, reflecting their importance for Venetian commerce. Almagià, Planisferi, 42, stated that Giroldi made a portolan chart in 1422 now in the BN in Paris; Campbell, in his “Census of Pre-Sixteenth Century Portolan Charts,” lists Paris, BN, Dépt. des Cartes et Plans C.5088 (no. 18), and New York, Hispanic Society, cod. K.4 (no. 147) as conserving a Giroldi portolan chart of the Mediterranean from 1422. In addition to the two codices in the Iter (Campbell nos. 87, 88) and the three codices listed by Almagià (Campbell nos. 63, 116, 156), Campbell adds Chicago, Newberry Library, cod. Smith, Ayer Coll. 2 (no. 138, an atlas of six charts that may be Giroldi); BL, cod. Add. 18665 (no. 46, an atlas of five charts that may be Giroldi); and BAV, cod. Vat. lat. 9105 (no. 158, an atlas of three charts that may be Giroldi).Google Scholar

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101 Milan, Bibl. Ambrosiana, cod. Sala Prefetto II, 37, attributed to J. Olives; seeKristeller, , Iter, 6:63b. On the Catalan school and the Olives/Oliva/Ollive family, see, e.g., Almagià, , Planisferi, 74; Howse, and Sanderson, , The Sea Chart, 18–19, 44–45; andAstengo, , La cartografia nautica mediterranea, 77–79, 113–14, 122–27, 130–31, 136–38. Jaume began work in his birthplace of Mallorca sometime before 1550 and then moved to Marseilles, Messina, Naples, back to Marseilles, and finally Barcelona, completing his last known chart and atlas in 1571–72. A grandson, Joan Riczo Oliva, worked in Naples and Messina and probably added the surname Rizco to distinguish himself from a contemporary Joan Oliva, who worked stably in Italy from 1580 to 1599 and then spent the years from 1601 to 1615 traveling the Mediterranean on board vessels and earning his keep by making portolan charts before settling again in Livorno in 1618. Between 1538 and 1673, there are portolan charts signed by no fewer than 13 different members of the family.Google Scholar

102 Florence, Bibl. Riccardiana, cod. Ricc. 3615, a parchment manuscript from the sixteenth century; and ibid., cod. Ricc. 3616, which has a sonnet in homage to Ghisolfi, the only form of identification on any of his atlases. SeeWagner, , “The Manuscript Atlases of Battista Agnese,” 4546, 54; Kristeller, , Iter, 5:612b; andAstengo, , La cartografia nautica mediterranea, 41–42, 97–100. In addition to the Riccardiana codices, Wagner lists others in the John Carter Brown Library, the Huntington Library (cod. HM.28), the BN in Naples (cod. VIII.D.6), the BN in Paris (cod. Rés. Ge. FF. 14411), and the Bibl. de la la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística (Fondo Reservado). Astengo lists four further codices: Vienna cod. Lat. 12925, Genoa Univ. cod. G.V.32, Oxford Bodleian cod. Broxbourne 84.4 (R.1598), Chicago Newberry cod. Novacco 6.C.1. In inquiring why an accomplished cartographer like Ghisolfi did not sign any of his atlases, Astengo came to the conclusion that it is a mystery. He rejects the possibility that the atlases were pirated copies of Agnese because prestigious families like the Medici and Doria purchased them. By way of comparison, Battista Agnese signed his atlases approximately 30% of the time, while Vesconte Maggiolo signed over 90% of the time.Google Scholar

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104 Minneapolis, Univ. of Minnesota Library, cod. Bell 1489/mCa; seeKristeller, , Iter, 5:275a. Albino da Canepa also produced a portolan chart in 1480 that is conserved in Rome at the Società Geografica Italiana. Prior to 1500, he was the only Genoese portolan maker to work solely in his hometown. SeeCampbell, , “Portolan Charts from the Late Thirteenth Century to 1500,” 438. According toAstengo, , La cartografia nautica mediterranea, 80, the difficulties of the market in Genoa in the fifteenth century may have led the government in the sixteenth century to create a monopoly in private hands. See alsoUrness, , Portolan Charts, 9–22, who treats the charts of Zuane Pizigano (1424), Pietro Roselli (1466), and Albino da Canepa (1489).Google Scholar

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107 The Arte de navegar that Martin Cortés wrote in 1551 included instructions for drawing portolan charts and was translated into English and published byEden, Richard as The Arte of Navigation (London, 1561). Cortés recommended the use of transparent or “carbon paper” to transfer the lines of the coast. See nowAlbacar, Martín Cortés, Breve compendio de la esfera y del arte de navegar, ed. Domingo, Mariano Cuesta(Madrid, 1990), cited byAstengo, , La cartografia nautica mediterranea, 30.Google Scholar

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