Porcacchi’s Map of the Gulf of Lepanto Dorset This plan of Constantinople is

This plan of Constantinople is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers

from Liverpool to Quebec

This is a scarce and ephemeral title

but when they are surprised by the owners of the house

The text of this edition was printed in London by Moyes

Porcacchi’s Map of the Gulf of Lepanto Dorset This plan of Constantinople isIl Sito de Curzolari (and Gulf of Lepanto) This map of the gulf of Lepanto was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and historiated initial. It is from LIsole piu famose del Mondo, one of the most beautifully engraved of the Italian Isolaria or Island books. The battle of Lepanto, 1571, was the first great defeat of the Turkish navy, and marked the beginning of the end of Ottoman naval supremacy.