Pietro Vesconte
✓ Source-basedstableItalian cartographer from Genoa
ScientistsLived 1300 to 1400 · aged 100
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Pietro Vesconte was an Italian cartographer and geographer from the Republic of Genoa. A pioneer of the field of the portolan chart, he influenced Italian and Catalan mapmaking throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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About this person
Pietro Vesconte was an Italian cartographer and geographer from the Republic of Genoa. A pioneer of the field of the portolan chart, he influenced Italian and Catalan mapmaking throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He appears to have been the first professional mapmaker to sign and date his works regularly.
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deceased
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Lived 1300 to 1400 · aged 100
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