Urbis Mantuae Descriptio

Perspective map of the city designed by Gabriele Bertazzolo, printed by Ludovico Delfichi in 1628. Copper engraving 768x1156 mm. This can be considered as the conclusion of the 1595 edition. The planning is the same but the setting reveals all the changes of the urban fabric at the time. The author worked a lot on the first map in order to enrich it and to arrive at this final version, published two years after his death. According to his own will, the unfinished works should have been delivered at to the Jesuits’ college in 1626 to be finalized. Two years later the map was printed by Ludovico Delfichi. This work can be consider as a prototype which was used to produce a lot of similar maps.