Andrea Bianco (cartographer)

However, the latter dating is considered certain, as he states on this map that he drew it in London in that year.

[1] The Bianco World Map is part of an atlas whose ten pages are made of vellum, measuring 29 × 38 cm.

It is considered to be the first extant cartographic work depicting the Portuguese discovery of Cape Verde.

[1] Bianco is the subject of the historical fiction book The Mapmaker (1957) by Frank G. Slaughter.

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