Eurasian Studies Balkans, Anatolia, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia Studies Notebooks

Series | Eurasian Studies
Edited book | Armenia, Caucasus, and Central Asia
Chapter | Modello di tutto il mondo tracciato a perfezione

Modello di tutto il mondo tracciato a perfezione

L’Asia interna nella carta a forma di cuore detta di Cagi Acmet

Abstract

This article presents the first results of the studies on the geographical content of the heart-shaped map of the world signed Cagi Acmet (1559), which has been made possible by the complete transliteration and translation of the work. The considered area, i.e. Central Asia, is presented and compared with 16th-century cartography. The Author draws from an in-depth examination of this area, as well as from the study of all the other parts of the map, the conclusion that the heart-shaped map is the work of the cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi, active in Venice between 1545 and 1566.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: March 17, 2019 | Accepted: April 17, 2019 | Published Oct. 17, 2019 | Language: it

Keywords Gastaldi • Central Asia • Tangut • Turkestan • ‘Cagi Acmet’ world-map • Ramusio • Vopell • B • C • Arsarot • G

Copyright © 2019 Marica Milanesi. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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