This beautiful portolan chart was made by Albino de Canepa, a Genoese cartographer about whom little is known.

A few things are certain. Apparently Canepa was proud of his home city, which is portrayed much larger than Venice on his map.



Venice

[Genoa is in the center; Venice is to the right, with the Alps and Avignon to the left.]

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