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TETTI, Carlo (1529-1589) and Sebastiano di RE (engraver). Neapolis urbs ad verissimam effigiem. Rome: Pietro Alessandro, 1560.
Engraved bird's-eye view of Naples on a full Royal sheet, 419 x 557mm. The view includes the city within its walls and the surrounding countryside, the title set in a cartouche with decorated initials, barges and sailing ships decorate the sea, key along lower margin. (Trimmed to plate mark, one fold neatly strengthened on verso, a few small tears and creases to left-hand margin very occasionally affecting image).
VERY RARE. One of the earliest engraved views of Naples, set within its walls, clearly and concisely executed. The extensive key refers to all the major buildings detailed on the plan. Carlo Tetti, born in Naples, studied military architecture in Africa. In 1569 he was working Venice, but moved to Vienna in 1575 were he took up his appointment as military architect to the court of Maximilian II. After various other court appointments, he returned to Venice at the end of his career, to work on the fortification of Verona. He is buried in Padua. Not in Tooley nor in Pane and Valerio; the earliest plan of Naples in the British Library map room a Lafreri publication, dated 1566; watermark similar to Woodward 67.
Engraved bird's-eye view of Naples on a full Royal sheet, 419 x 557mm. The view includes the city within its walls and the surrounding countryside, the title set in a cartouche with decorated initials, barges and sailing ships decorate the sea, key along lower margin. (Trimmed to plate mark, one fold neatly strengthened on verso, a few small tears and creases to left-hand margin very occasionally affecting image).
VERY RARE. One of the earliest engraved views of Naples, set within its walls, clearly and concisely executed. The extensive key refers to all the major buildings detailed on the plan. Carlo Tetti, born in Naples, studied military architecture in Africa. In 1569 he was working Venice, but moved to Vienna in 1575 were he took up his appointment as military architect to the court of Maximilian II. After various other court appointments, he returned to Venice at the end of his career, to work on the fortification of Verona. He is buried in Padua. Not in Tooley nor in Pane and Valerio; the earliest plan of Naples in the British Library map room a Lafreri publication, dated 1566; watermark similar to Woodward 67.