ALBRIZZI, GIAMBATISTA: VIEWS OF OSOR, HERGEG-NOVI, KOTOR, THE ŠIBENIK CATHEDRAL, SPLIT AND TRGIR

ALBRIZZI, GIAMBATISTA (1698-1777), an Italian publisher from the 18th century. The two-volume Gerusalemme liberata (1745), which he published in collaboration with Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, is among his most famous works. He published the work Stato presente di tutti paesi e popoli del mondo naturale, politico, e morale, con nuove osservazioni, e correzioni degli antichi e moderni viaggiatori in Venice in 1753. His works are an important contribution to the Croatian cartography primarily because of his geographical map of Istria, Pula, Venetian Dalmatia, Osor, Kvarner and Šibenik. While some maps of the North Adriatic ports are marked by a relative imprecision of geographical data, Albrizzi based his depiction of Šibenik on Rota’s map of the same region. He also used Bonifaci’s maps, of Kopar or Osor for example, that the Šibenik native had created for Camoci’s isolario in 1571. This kind of temporal deviation confirms that he was inspired by older local masters, and the same can be seen in his depictions of cities and their surroundings which were predominantly characterised by the images of the Ottoman-Ventian War, even though the cities had already been under the Venetian rule since 1718, well before his works were created.