Zuane Pizzigano (sometimes given as Giovanni Pizzigano), was a 15th-century Venetian cartographer. He is the author of a famous 1424 portolan chart, the first known to depict the phantom islands of the purported Antillia archipelago (Antillia, Satanazes, Royllo and Tanmar), in the north Atlantic Ocean.
ZuanePizzigano (sometimes given as Giovanni Pizzigano), was a 15th-century Venetian cartographer. He is the author of a famous 1424 portolan chart, the...
appearance as a large rectangular island in the 1424 portolan chart of ZuanePizzigano. Thereafter, it routinely appeared in most nautical charts of the 15th...
brothers as the Pizigani (one z), until the discovery of the 1424 map of ZuanePizzigano in the 20th century suggested a re-spelling to a double z. The Pizzigani...
with the island originally called Ymana in a 1424 nautical chart of ZuanePizzigano. The island is usually depicted in many 15th-century maps as a small...
first depicted in the 1424 portolan chart of Venetian cartographer ZuanePizzigano. It is drawn as a large, blue rectangular island, indented with bays...
real islands of Madeira. Prior to the discovery of the 1424 map of ZuanePizzigano, Beccario's 1435 Parma map was believed to be the first to depict the...
at least place it on an equal footing with the 1424 nautical map of ZuanePizzigano). Vinland map Winter, 1938: p.151 Alexander von Humboldt (Examen critique...
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