Girolamo Porro (c. 1520 - after 1604) was an Italian engraver on wood and on copper. He was born at

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and spent most of his working career in

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. He engraved for a book entitled ''Imprese illustri di diversi'', published by Camillo Camilli in 1535. He executed the plates for the ''

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'' of Ariosto, published at

in 1584; for the ''Funerali antichi di diversi Popoli et Natione'', by Tommaso Porcacchi, published in 1574; and the portraits for the ''Sommario delle Vite do' Duchi di Milano'' by Scipione Barbuo, in 1574. The maps in

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's translation of the ''Geographia'' of

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, 1574, and the maps in Porcacchi's ''Isole piu famose del Mondo'', first published in 1572, are likewise by him.

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* 1520 births 17th-century deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Venice Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub