The Venetian fort of San Nicolo, Sibenik

CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.

S, Nicolo di Sebenico, Dedicata All'Illustrissimo Signore Antonio Ciuani P.V. Figlio dell'Ecc.mp Sig.r Nicolo.
Venice: Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti', c.1700. Plan with separately-printed border, total 255 x 330mm.

Tear just entering plate lower right

A sketched plan of San Nicolo fort, at the entrance to St Anthony Channel, Sibenik, 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 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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