Summary
Giuseppe Rosaccio: Veduta Ulcinja
Giuseppe Rosaccio (approx. 1530-1620) Italian cosmographer who worked in Venice. His most famous works are "Teatro del Cielo e Terra Florence" from 1594, the edition of Ptolemy's "Mode elementa" from 1604 and "Teatro del Cielo" from 1615. The most significant for the Croatian countries is his isolare "Viaggio da Venetia a Constantinopoli" with depictions of all major islands and ports on the way from Venice to Constantinople, which saw several editions from 1597 onwards.
This veduta by Rosaccio was published in the first edition of Rosaccio's travelogue "Viaggio da Venetia a Constantinopoli per Mare, e per Terra, & insieme quello di Terra Santa" from 1598.
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