Giovanni Leardo was a 15th-century Venetian geographer and cosmographer. Leardo made at least four
mappae mundi, of which three survive today.
Leardo's 1442 map is held at the Biblioteca Communale Library in
Verona
Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Northern Italy, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and the ...
. A 1447 map does not survive, but a 1448 map is held at the
Museo Civico at
Vicenza
Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan.
Vicenza is a th ...
.
[Jim Siebold]
The Leardo World Maps
/ref> A 1452 map was donated by Archer M. Huntington
Archer Milton Huntington (March 10, 1870 – December 11, 1955) was a philanthropist and scholar, primarily known for his contributions to the field of Hispanic Studies. He founded The Hispanic Society of America in New York City, and made n ...
to the American Geographical Society
The American Geographical Society (AGS) is an organization of professional geographers, founded in 1851 in New York City. Most fellows of the society are Americans, but among them have always been a significant number of fellows from around the ...
, and is the oldest world map in the library there.
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Leardo Mappamundi 1452
15th-century Italian cartographers
15th-century Venetian people
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