A map of the territories surrounding Piacenza & Pavia

ALBRIZZI, Giovanni Battista.

Carta Geografica dei Territori di Pavia, di Lodi e di Piacenza.
Venice, 1750, coloured, 330 x 400mm.

A map of the Po valley with its towns and cities. The decorative title cartouche in the bottom right hand corner with a portrait medallion, possibly of Charlemagne who ruled Lombardy from Pavia in the 8th century, and flanked by a river god and a minotaur both holding amphorae from which flow the waters of the rivers Po and Ticino. From Volume II of Albrizzi's 'Atlante Novissimo' after Guillaume de L'Isle.

NORDENSKIÖLD 64 (21)
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