Bellingeri, Giampiero (Author)
Milanesi, Marica (Author)
Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography
Volume: 72
Issue: 1
Pages: 47-51
In the course of a turkological and historical search for evidence surviving in Europe, and particularly in Venice, relating to the non-Ottoman Turkish states and to the ‘Nogai Tartar’ horde, I paid particular attention to the descriptions of Muscovy dating from the early modern period.1 Among these is the Libellus de legatione Basilii (1525), a treatise comparing the regime governing the Nogai horde with the Venetians’ oligarchical government. The work, well known throughout Europe, enjoyed special attention in Venice. The author was the Italian historian Paolo Giovio (1483–1552) who had accompanied Dimitrij Gerasimov, Muscovy’s envoy to the papal court, during his stay in Rome in 1525. At the beginning (page [1v]) of the Libellus, Giovio promised to supply a printed map of Muscovy: ‘Regionis … situs … in tabula typis excusa figurabitur’ [the territory will be depicted in a printed map], but until now modern scholars have been able to do no more than complain of its absence from extant copies of the Libellus. It is easy to be intimidated by the weight of so widespread a conviction, but I am now persuaded that I have found a map corresponding to the one promised by Giovio and which fits the text so well that it has become a habitual point of reference in my reading of the Libellus. I came across the map in Venice’s Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in a quarto volume bound in parchment in the eighteenth century. It is placed between two sixteenth-century treatises on Muscovy: namely Giovio’s Libellus and Johannes Fabri’s Moschovitarum iuxta mare glaciale religio.2 For me it was a lucky and fruitful discovery. At the time (just before 2006), however, there was neither reason nor occasion for me to think about broadcasting it outside my own specialist field of Turkish language and literature and sixteenth-century relations between Venice and the East. Thus the existence of a surviving example of Giovio’s map remained unknown to map historians.
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