Camocio, Giovanni Francesco (1550-1575). Territoria di Roma. Venice, 1559

Giovanni Francesco Camocio (1550-1575) Territorio di RomaEngraved map Venice: 155918 15/16" x 12 13/16" sheet Giovanni Francesco Camocio (active from the 1550's through the 1570's) was one of a group of Italian cartographer-booksellers known, a little artificially, as the "Lafreri school." His name has come to be associated with the present map because it was added in later states, this being the first of Bifolco-Ronca's four; the point is the absence of an address below the scale. Camocio appears to have cut a near-replica of an anonymous map dated 1557, which is itself based upon a 1556 map attributed to Vincenzo Luchini, all deriving ultimately from a 1547 map of Eufrosino della Volpaia. These maps all depict Lazio (the territory immediately surrounding Rome) with North at the upper-left corner (i.e., NE at the top). Visible within the city of Rome are the Castel Sant'Angelo, Pantheon and Colosseum.  In the cartouche at bottom left are the impaled arms of the Camera Apostolica (the