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Last Name Mauro

Given Name Fra

alt. Names F. M. ; Camaldolese Brother Mauro da Venezia ;

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Year born 1390

Year died 1460

Place of death cloister San Michele (island in the Venitian lagoon)

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Country of Activity Italy

Worked for Mappa mundi, c. 1457-59, kept at the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice: http://viaf.org/viaf/293424464

Patronage King Alfons V

Collaborators cartographer ->Andrea Bianco ; cartographer Alvise Ca' Da Mosto ? ;

Techniques geographic map-making, esp. a world map from c. 1457-59 ; drawing & hand-colouring on pergament

Sample(s) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Mauro

Archival sources Bibl. Marciana, Venice ; retro.seals.ch/openurl?rft.issn=1015-8480&rft.issue=9&rft.date=1994&lPage=13 ; cvc.instituto-camoes.pt/navegaport/g34.html

Published sources Il Mappamondo di Fra Mauro, A cura di Tullia Gasparrini Leporace; presentazione di Roberto Almagià, Rome 1956; Angelo Cattaneo: Fra Mauro’s Mappamundi and fifteenth-century Venetian culture. Turnhout: 2007; Piero Falchetta: Fra Mauro’s world map: w. comm.& transl. of inscriptions, ibid.2006;

other A camaldulense monch active as geographer, compiling reports of portugese seafarers.

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