ROSACCIO, GIUSEPPE: VIEW OF PULA

Inventory number 242

Original title: Pola

Publishing year: 1598

Place of publishing and publisher: Venezia

Format: 10 x 17,5 cm

Technique: Copper engraving

This copperplate map image was made during the period of stagnation in the development of the town of Pula occurred at the beginning of the early New ages. The author drew Pula as a rather small densely built town. Walls on the seaward side protest the town. In the background ruins of an antique amphitheatre (ccoloseo antico) are identified, as well as the monastery with St. Michael church. In front of the church the rests of antique buildings (ruine antiche) are shown. The Golf of Pula is shown with many inaccuracies as well as the southern peninsula in front of Pula on which the turret of Orlando is identified and the Church of St. Mary of Premantura. This Rosaccio’s view comes from the first edition of his travel-record book «Viaggio da Venetia a Constantinopoli per Mare, e per Terra, & insieme quello di Terra Santa» published in 1598. It seems likely that Rosaccio based his map on the view produced by Božo Bonifačić in 1571 for Comoco’s isolario.

ROSACCIO, GIUSEPPE

Giuseppe Rossacio (ca 1530-1620), Italian cosmographer who worked in Venice. His most noted works are “Teatro del Cielo e Terra Florence” of 1594, the 1604 edition of Ptolemy’s “Fashion of the Four Elements” and “Teatro del Cielo” of 1615. Of the greatest importance for the depiction of the Croatian lands is his isolario “Viaggio da Venetia a Constantinopoli” comprising map images of all of the bigger islands and ports located along the navigable way leading from Venice to Constantinople, the work that from 1597 onwards went through several editions.