Giovanni Leardo Explained

Giovanni Leardo was a 15th-century Venetian geographer and cosmographer. Leardo made at least four mappae mundi, of which three survive today.^[1]

Leardo's 1442 map is held at the Biblioteca Communale Library in Verona. A 1447 map does not survive, but a 1448 map is held at the Museo Civico at Vicenza.^[2] A 1452 map was donated by Archer M. Huntington to the American Geographical Society, and is the oldest world map in the library there.^[3]

External links

• • Leardo Mappamundi 1452

Notes and References

1. Book: Evelyn Edson. The World Map, 1300-1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation. 2007. JHU Press. 978-0-8018-8589-1. 188–.
2. Jim Siebold, The Leardo World Maps
3. Book: Wright, John Kirtland. John Kirtland Wright

   . John Kirtland Wright. The Leardo map of the world: 1452 or 1453, in the collections of the American geographical society. 1928. American Geographical Society.