Antonio Salamanca or Martinez de Salamanca (Salamanca 1479–1562

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) was a Spanish-born Italian dealer and publisher who settled in Rome and was active as a book-seller,

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and engraver. He was born in

Salamanca Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritag ...

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in 1479 and seems to have settled in

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, around 1510, when he married an Italian woman. It has been recorded that he was an active book-seller at the

Campo de' Fiori Campo de' Fiori (, literally "field of flowers") is a rectangular square south of Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy, at the border between rione Parione and rione Regola. It is diagonally southeast of the Palazzo della Cancelleria and one block north ...

of Rome in 1517 and that his publishing house flourished in 1526. IAN 0105 Salamanca 1540 Preveza

In 1532 he published his first collection of engravings with prints of mythological interest, including works by

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of works by Raphael, His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of ...

. Since 1553, he cooperated with

Antonio Lafreri Antoine du Pérac Lafréry (1512–1577), better known as Antonio Lafreri, was a Burgundian engraver, cartographer and publisher active in Rome. Born at Orgelet in the County of Burgundy, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, Lafreri settled in ...

(1512–1577), a publisher and map trader of French origin, with whom he published a book of

Juan Valverde de Amusco Juan Valverde de Amusco (or "de Hamusco") (c. 1525-?) was born in the Crown of Castille in what is now Spain 1525 and studied medicine in Padua and Rome under Realdo Columbo and Bartolomeo Eustachi. He published several works on anatomy, includ ...

illustrated by

Nicolas Beatrizet __NOTOC__ Nicolas Béatrizet (or ''Beatrizet'', or ''Beatricetto'') was a 16th century French engraver, working in Rome. Life Béatrizet was born at Luneville in or before 1520. From his style, it has been conjectured that he was a scholar of ...

. His cooperation with Lafreri lasted until his death, for almost a decade, and produced engraved maps, prints and views of cities, as well as informative leaflets ( ''avvisi'') of important events of his time.''The Ionian Sea. Chartography and History 16th–18th century''

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Archive of the Chartography of Greek Areas, Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece, Athens, 2007, biographies of map makers, p. 239. After his death, in 1562, his son Francesco Salamanca continued the cooperation with Antonio Lafreri. Amongst his works is the creation of a copy of the first world map by

Gerardus Mercator Gerardus Mercator (; 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a 16th-century geographer, cosmographer and Cartography, cartographer from the County of Flanders. He is most renowned for creating the Mercator 1569 world map, 1569 world map based on ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Salamanca, Antonio Spanish engravers Italian engravers Spanish cartographers 16th-century Italian cartographers 1479 births 1562 deaths People from Salamanca