Piero Falchetta (born 1951) is an Italian

cartographer Cartography (; from grc, χάρτης , "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and , "write") is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality (or an im ...

, writer and translator. He is head of the department of ancient maps at the Biblioteca Marciana in

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

and a specialist of medieval travel writing, history of cartography and history of navigation. He currently lives in his native

. One of his most recent contributions to medieval cartography is a critical edition of Fra Mauro's World Map, published in 2006. Recent contributions to the history of navigation are the essays o
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nautical writings, and the edition of Benedetto Cotrugli's treatise ''De navigatione'' (1464–65). He is also the author of literary essays and translations. His most notable translation is ''La scomparsa'' (1995) Italian translation on Georges Perec's lipogrammatic novel ''La disparition'' (1969) (English translation '' A Void'', 1994), which was awarded the 1996 ''Leone Traverso'' debut prize in the Monselice Literary Prize.Monselice Literary Prizes

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Falchetta, Piero 1951 births Living people 20th-century Italian cartographers Italian essayists Male essayists Italian translators Italian male non-fiction writers