Giovanni Battista Boazio or Battista Boazio (

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1588 – 1606) was an Italian draftsman and cartographer. He mapped Sir

Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake ( – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer, sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer, and politician. Drake is best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580 (t ...

's voyage to the West Indies and America. Boazio-Sir Francis Drake in Cartagena

He spent a long period working in England, and made a map of Ireland that was then used in the ''

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'' (, "Theatre of the Orb of the World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas. Written by Abraham Ortelius, strongly encouraged by Gillis Hooftman and originally printed on 20 May 1570 in Antwerp, it consist ...

''. 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 Thomas Cockson, or ''Coxon'' (bap. 1569 – fl. 1609-30 or 1636 – 1641), was one of the earliest English engravers. He left a large number of portraits engraved entirely with the graver in a neatly and finished manner. His first and most r ...

. Other cartographic drawings includes Cartagena de las Indias,

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in the island of Hispaniola,

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and the Cape Verdean island of

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

, the Santiago engraving was one of the first to depict of that of any island in Cape Verde.

References

*Carl Moreland and David Bannister (1986), ''Antique Maps'', p. 71.

Notes

External links

WorldCat page

Reuters
Rare old British atlas sells for $1.3 million
''Map and views Illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage,''
1585-6. From the Collections at the

Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library is ...

“The Political Force of Images,” Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820.
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