Summary
Book 1: Seas, bays, islands, coasts, ports, cities, forts and other places in Istria, Kvarner, Dalmatia, Albania, Epirus and Livadia = Mari, Golfi, Isole, Spiaggie, Porti, Città, Fortezze, ed altri Luoghi Dell' Istria, Quarner, Dalmazia, Albania, Epiro, e Livadia.
Coronelli's work Mari, Golfi, Isole, Spiaggie, Porti, Città, Fortezze, ed altri Luoghi Dell' Istria, Quarner, Dalmazia, Albania, Epiro, e Livadia is one of the most important cartographic monuments depicting Croatia in the early modern century. With his reprint, the wider community gets the opportunity to get acquainted with the perception of the geographical reality in the Croatian coastal regions from the Venetian perspective in the turning point period of the suppression of the Ottomans and the enthronement of the state legal order on the northeastern coast of the Adriatic, which lasted until the era of the Napoleonic Wars. This geographical image was shaped and successfully presented to the public by the leading Venetian and one of the best European cartographers from the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century, whose works were entered in golden letters in the book of European cultural heritage.
Book 2: Cities, fortresses, and other main places in Albania, Epirus and Livadia, especially those in the possession of the Venetians = Citta, Fortezzes, ed altri Luoghi principali dell' Albania, Epiro e Livadia, E particulareamento i posseduti da Veneti.
Coronelli's work Citta, Fortezzes, ed altri Luoghi principali dell' Albania, Epiro e Livadia, E particularelio i posseduti da Veneti is one of the most important cartographic works monuments with depictions of the southeastern Adriatic and Ionian area in the early modern century. With its reprint, the wider community gets the opportunity to get acquainted with the perception of the geographical reality in the Adriatic and Ionian coastal regions from the Venetian perspective in the last decades of the 17th century. This geographical picture was shaped and successfully presented to the public by the leading Venetian and one of the best European cartographers from the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century, whose works are inscribed in golden letters in the book of European cultural heritage.
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