Fra Mauro

Fra Mauro

male
astronaut, Codice Borgiano V, portolanchart, Venetian Lagoon, Heraklion, Vatican Library
Fra Mauro was a 15th century Italian Camaldolese monk who kept his cartography workshop in the monastery of San Michel in Isola Murano, in the...
Seydi Ali Reis

Seydi Ali Reis

male, deceased (1563)
goa, Sailor, admiral, turkish, ottoman empire, ottoman…portolan, portolanchart
Seydi Ali Reis was an Ottoman admiral. He commanded the left wing of the Turkish fleet at the naval Battle of Preveza in 1538. He was later...
Giorgio Sideri

Giorgio Sideri

male
Cartographer, Italian, nautical chart, navigational chart, crete, atlas…portolanchart
Giorgio Sideri caled Callapoda was a sixteenth-century cartographer, born in Candia (Crete), who worked in Venice, where map-making skills were...