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Exhibition about Renacentist cartography in Bergamo

The exhibition is called with the suggestive name title “Quando l’Italia disegnava il mondo. Tesori Cartografici del Rinascimento Italiano” and it can be visited in the Palazzo del Podestà – Museo del ‘500 (Piazza Alta / Città Alta) of Bergamo, between 16 of April and 10 of July.

It is organised  by  l’Associazione “Roberto Almagià”, Fondazione Bergamo nella Storia and Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai e Archivi Storici Comunali.

There it can be seen 74 printed maps published in Roma o Venecia between 1525 and 1575, the top of “edat d’or de la cartografia del Renaixement italià”. They are rare or unique models, generally unreachable to public: 3 planispheres, 3 of territories of Africa, 4 of asian territories, 4 of american territories, 21 of territories of Europe, 5 of Italian Peninsula, 29 of italian areas and 5 of urban sights. 

In this way, the organizers have pretended to recreate, with pieces from different partners, an atles lafrerià, although only temporally. 

Also it has been published a catalog of 230 pages. More information in the web CISGE and in Libreria Antiquaria Perini.