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View of Brindisi, 1618 (Brindisi, Apulia, Italy) 40°37ʹ55ʺN 17°56ʹ09ʺE
1618 or laterEtching and engraving; printed on paper; mounted on paper, mount cropped (Mount Type not discernible) | 39.0 x 52.7 cm (image and sheet) | RCIN 721135
A view of the Venetian and Neapolitan fleets in order of battle on 28 May 1618 off the port of Brindisi. Oriented with south-west to top.
This print shows the Venetian fleet, commanded by Pietro Barbarigo (10 January 1569-29 November 1618), who had been appointed Captain General on 2 May. Barbarigo's ship is shown in the vanguard. Passing Brindisi, Barbarigo captured four ships and three brigs of Turkish pirates and spent the next month patrolling the Adriatic.This show of strength caused the Spanish, whose fleet had been stationed at Brindisi, to leave the area.
The ships are shown in order of battle and each has the name of its commander engraved against it. The coastline strtetches from San Cataldo (40°23ʹ26ʺN 18°18ʹ01ʺE) in the south-east to Biestici (Peschici? 41°56ʹ43ʺN 16°00ʹ58ʺE). The date of 1616 in the George III heading and George III catalogue entries is a misreading of the date in the title.
Francesco Valeggio (b.1560-active 1618) (publisher) [bottom left:] Si vvendono in spadaria / alla Libraria della sorte / appresso Franc.o Valeggio.
Subject(s)
Navy-Venetian RepublicWatermark: None visible
Condition: six fold lines; creased; brown discolouration; heavy wear and abrasion along fold lines; formerly folded to 11.4 x 8.1 cm; pressure marks from the mounts of items which were kept above and below this map/print in a different collection are present on the recto and verso. Verso: surface dirt; remains of Mount Type A or B; no gilt edges. This print was already in poor condition before it was mounted
39.0 x 52.7 cm (image and sheet)
cropped (platemark)
Printed title:
PETRVS BARBADICVS VENETÆ CLASSIS CV[M] SVMMA POTESTATE PRÆFECTVS / HADRIATICVM SINVM EXCVRRENS, / HOSTIVMQ: NON PAVCIS VEL DEPRESSIS, VEL ABDVCTIS NAVIBVS / LATE POTENS. / CLASSEM VNIVERSAM BRVNDVSIVM REDVXIT / VT FRVSTRA LATIPVLA QVÆRITANTES HOSTES VEL IN PORTV OPPRIMERET. / SED HI TVRPI FVGA DILAPSI, / INVSTA POTIVS SIBIMET IGNOMINIA, QVAM INITO PRÆLIO, / TANTI DVCIS GLORIAM AMPLIFICARE VOLVERVNT / MDCXIIX. [bottom, right of centre, in cartouche]
Annotations:
George III heading: Brindisi 1616.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [centre, red pencil:] 1/22; [centre, black pencil:] I/12[?]; [bottom, right of centre, black pencil, faint and partly legible:] [?] between the [?] / [?] and the Spanish [?].
George III catalogue entry:
Brindisi View of the position of the Venetian and Neapolitan Fleets at Brindisi in the Adriatic Sea in 1616: by F. Valeggio.
Subject(s)
Brindisi, Apulia, Italy (40°37ʹ55ʺN 17°56ʹ09ʺE)
Bibliographic reference(s)
A. Ventura, 'Barbarigo, Pietro', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol.6, 1964, (website accessed 22 Jan 2016)
M. McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. no. 2817
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