The Newberry library inwards Chicago has a major exhibition on Religious Change in addition to Print, 1450-1700 opening on September 14th. In back upward of this exhibition they convey pose together an online collection of the Newberry's manuscripts, maps in addition to images from the Reformation. This includes a superb interactive presentation of Giovanni Merlo’s engraved map of Venice from 1676.
The Newberry's interactive version of Merlo's Map includes information almost the engraving in addition to to a greater extent than or less of the Venetian locations depicted inwards the map. The colored circles on the map alternative out to a greater extent than or less of Reformation Venice's most of import churches, monasteries in addition to printing centers. You tin sack click on these circles to larn to a greater extent than almost each highlighted place in addition to sentiment other illustrations of the place from the Newberry collection.
If you lot guide the 'toggle maps' push (from the navigation buttons running downwardly the middle of the interactive) you lot tin sack straight compare Merlo's Map side-by-side amongst other vintage maps of Venice. These other maps include Jacopo de Barbari 1500 map of Venice, Benedetto Bordon's map of 1534 in addition to Paolo Forlani's Venetia from 1566.
If you lot similar historical vintage maps thus you lot powerfulness likewise similar these interactive maps:
The Mappa Mundi (the largest surviving medieval map of the world)
The Gough or Bodleian Map of Great Britain (the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain)
The Oxford Outremer Map (a thirteenth-century map of State of Israel in addition to Palestine)
