MEISNER, DANIEL: VIEW OF POREČ

This view of Poreč by Meisner was made after Bernard von Breydenbach's and Georg Hoefnagel's maps (ref. catalogue No. 88). The image shown in the foreground of Meisner's map is a lion attacking a goat metaphorically representing the domination of the Venetians over the Istrian peninsula. Alike the other Meisner's city views, the representation of Poreč is accompanied by the bilingual, Latino-German comments. So, on this map too, below the cartographic image follows the text formulated in a baroque neo stoical manner in elegiac couplets: Perfer et obdura; tandem bona causa triumphat,/ Fata triumphando per tua victor eris. Translated means: Persevere and endure; despite all, ultimately the good will prevail/ Your destiny will lead you to victory. The Latin sentence is followed then by its German paraphrase.