Giovanni Battista Boazio

1588 – 1606) was an Italian draftsman and cartographer.

He mapped Sir Francis Drake's voyage to the West Indies and America.

He spent a long period working in England, and made a map of Ireland that was then used in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.

He was sponsored by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex to draw a map illustrating the Capture of Cadiz, which was engraved by Thomas Cockson.

[1] Other cartographic drawings includes Cartagena de las Indias, Santo Domingo in the island of Hispaniola, Saint Augustine, Florida[2] and the Cape Verdean island of Santiago, the Santiago engraving was one of the first to depict of that of any island in Cape Verde.