other famous ancient monuments believed destroyed. The navigator Grazioso Benincasa was born in Ancona; he was the best known Italian maritime cartographer...

settlements (the "Seven Cities") on the island. In one reading (from Grazioso Benincasa), the seven cities are named Aira, Antuab, Ansalli, Ansesseli, Ansodi...

century—notably, Battista Beccario (1435), Andrea Bianco (1436), Grazioso Benincasa (1462, 1470, 1482), etc. down to the 1492 Erdapfel globe of Martin...

Majorcan, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean Grazioso Benincasa [it] (15th century), from Ancona, author of several portolan charts...

commercial law, and finally by navigator and maritime cartographer Grazioso Benincasa, key figure of the nautical cartographic school of Ancona, one of...

until the early modern period. A portolan chart prepared in Venice by Grazioso Benincasa in 1468 is "the first depiction of Ireland as an island in its own...

much of his primary material to the Venetian cartographer Grazioso Benincasa, as Benincasa went on to produce an atlas in 1468, depicting the West African...

label) the insulae de novo rep(er)te ("islands newly reported"). In Grazioso Benincasa's 1463 atlas, the settlements on Satanazes island are named Araialis...

isles). Most cartographers are named, some of them notables, such as Grazioso Benincasa of Ancona and Petrus Rosell of Majorca, others are lesser known. The...

collection) the Adriatic portolano of Grazioso Benincasa of Ancona, compiled 1435–45 (Ms. at Biblioteca comunale Luciano Benincasa in Ancona, Italy). the Venetian...

also indications of cities whose faint letters are evocative of Grazioso Benincasa's maps., and a small legend which has been variously read as "Sebil"...