The medieval Castle of Pandeli on Leros

CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.

Fortezza di Lero.
Venice: Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti', c.1700. Plan with separately-printed border, total 255 x 330mm.

A map-view of the Castle of Pandeli, built by the Knights of St John from 1309, within a frame-like border surmounted with the arms of Cosimo III de Medici (1642-1723, published in a variant edition of the 'Teatro delle città e porti principali dell'Europa'.
The map was published when as Venice celebrated Venice the recapture of much of the Morea and Dalmatia during the Sixth Ottoman-Venetian War (or the 'Morean War' , 1684-99). Their joy was brief, as the Ottomans reclaimed their losses in the Seventh War (1714-18).


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