FRANCOIS DE BELLEFOREST
POURTRAICT DE LA VILLE DE GOA
Folded MapYear: 1575
Size: 42 x 33.9 cm (16.5 x 13.3 inches)
Goa Fortissima Indiae Urbs in Chris Fianorum potesfatem anno Salutis 1509 deuenit
Early double-page woodcut plan of Goa accompanied by French descriptive text front and verso. Goa was often regarded as the Portuguese gateway to India and their most important colony on the subcontinent.
This map is decorated with two galleons; it was published in La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le monde, printed 1575 in two volumes in Paris by Nicolas Chesneau and Michel Sonnius with the French text by François de Belleforest. It is the French version of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.
All maps and views of the Paris edition by Belleforest are very rare since there was one edition in one language on. The woodcuts of the Basel edition by Seb. Münster were used in 46 different editions.
Francois de Belleforest (1530–1583)
He was a prolific French cartographer, author, poet, and translator of the Renaissance. He was born in Samatan (the actual department of Gers) into a poor family, and his father (a soldier) was killed when he was seven. He spent some time in the court of Marguerite of Navarre, travelled to Toulouse and Bordeaux (where he met George Buchanan), and then to Paris, where he came into contact with members of the young literary generation, including Pierre de Ronsard, Jean Antoine de Baïf, Jean Dorat, Remy Belleau, Antoine Du Verdier, and Odet de Turnèbe. In 1568 he became historiographer to the king. He died in Paris.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
Good Condition
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