ROSACCIO, GIUSEPPE: VIEW OF HERCEG NOVI
Inventory number 253
Author: ROSACCIO, GIUSEPPE
Original title: Castelnovo
Publishing year: 1598
Place of publishing and publisher: Venezia
Format: 10 x 17,5 cm
Technique: Copper engraving
This view shows Herceg-Novi, important fortress belonging to Venetian Dalmatia captured during the 16th century by the Turks. Herceg-Novi as it was under Turkish rule can be seen. The map image shows, in fact, the town while it was besieged by the Christian forces that launched attacks from the sea in an attempt to liberate it. That particular besiege resulted in a short-lasted liberation (28.10.1538-28.8.1539) of Herceg-Novi. Re-conquered by the Turks, in 1539, the town was retaken in 1687 and included back to the territory of Venetian Republic. This Rosaccio’s view was included in the first edition of his travel-record book «Viaggio da Venetia a Constantinopoli per Mare, e per Terra, & insieme quello di Terra Santa» appeared in 1598.
ROSACCIO, GIUSEPPE
Giuseppe Rossacio (ca 1530-1620), Italian cosmographer who worked in Venice. His most noted works are “Teatro del Cielo e Terra Florence” of 1594, the 1604 edition of Ptolemy’s “Fashion of the Four Elements” and “Teatro del Cielo” of 1615. Of the greatest importance for the depiction of the Croatian lands is his isolario “Viaggio da Venetia a Constantinopoli” comprising map images of all of the bigger islands and ports located along the navigable way leading from Venice to Constantinople, the work that from 1597 onwards went through several editions.
