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LAFRERI, Antonio. - Disegno dell Isola di Malta con li porti et forti… In Roma per Antonio Lafreri nel anno 1565.

LAFRERI, Antonio. - Disegno dell Isola di Malta con li porti et forti… In Roma per Antonio Lafreri nel anno 1565.
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LAFRERI, Antonio. - Disegno dell Isola di Malta con li porti et forti… In Roma per Antonio Lafreri nel anno 1565.
Published: Rome, 1565
Size: 375 x 510mm.
Color: Uncolored
Condition: Cut out along the neat line, strong paper margins added at an early date. A tear at the lower right part of the engraved area (3 cm), the paper weakened due to mold, with a few tears or holes, paper water staining in the lower part, and browning at the left and right-hand parts due to glue.

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The map includes a title cartouche with a lettered-key A-P and imprint at the top left and a scale decorated with a compass at the lower left.
The second state of Antonio Lafreri's map of the island of Malta, during the momentous Great Siege of Malta in 1565, was printed just a month into the four-month-long battle. At the time, Malta was the last major redoubt of the Knights Hospitaller, a militant monastic order of the Catholic faith that can trace its origins to the Crusades. The siege was thus framed in Europe as an epic good-vs-evil struggle between European Christianity and the Islamic Ottoman Empire.

The second edition of the plate, completely modified by the updates from Malta, can also be dated to June 1565, based on the war events described. The publisher's imprint is added to the cartouche. The Forte S. Elmo is still represented and defended by the assault, and this date was before 23 June, when it was conquered by the Ottomans.
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