Fra Mauro

Venetian cartographer (c. 1400 – 1464) Bust of Fra Mauro "Frater Maurus S. Michaelis Moranensis de Venetiis ordinis Camaldulensis chosmographus incomparabilis" (Fra Mauro of the Venetian monastery of St. Michael in Murano, of the Camaldolese Order, an incomparable cosmographer); a medal with the likeness of Fra Mauro, of the Camaldolese Monastery of St. Michael in Murano, Venice (c. 1459), attributed by some to Giovanni Boldù [it], at the City Museum of Venice Fra Mauro OSB Cam (c. 1400 – 1464) was an Italian cartographer who lived in the Republic of Venice. He created the most detailed and accurate map of the world up until that time, the Fra Mauro map. Mauro was a monk of the Camaldolese Monastery of St. Michael, located on the island of Murano in the Venetian Lagoon. It was there that he maintained a cartography workshop. He also was employed by some very powerful men like Prince Henry the Navigator. Biography Fra Mauro was born before or around the year 1400. In his youth, Mauro had traveled extensively as a merchant and a soldier. He was familiar with the Middle East. He is recorded in the records of the Monastery of St. Michael from 1409. As a lay member of the monastery