VALEGIO (VALESIO), FRANCESCO: DUBROVNIK / RAGUSA

Inventory number 458

Original title: Ragusi

Publishing year: 1600

Place of publishing and publisher: Venezia

Format: 9 x 13 cm

Technique: Copper engraving

This view was published around 1600 in "Raccolta di le piu illustri et famose citta di tutto il mondo". This work was a response to previously published books of town views by Forlani, Zenoi and Bertelli, and because of the number of views, especially to the monumental work "Civitates orbis terrarum" by Braun and Hogenberg, Valegio's work seemed to be very popular. Several releases were published. The number of views increased from one issue to the next. The latest edition published by Venetian publisher Donato Rasicoti as "Nuove raccolte..." between 1610 and 1620 contained more than 300 views. Like many others, the view of Dubrovnik was drawn and engraved by the cartographer and engraver Martin Rota Kolunić of Šibenik. The view depicts Dubrovnik from a semi-perspective and before a devastating earthquake. The view highlights the existing high belltower of the Franciscan church, the arsenal and the harbour with a breakwater and thick protective chain. There is a framed inscription in the right corner: In Dalmatia in littore mari adriatici sita. The same view was published by Lasor a Varea in his work "Universus Terrarum Orbis ..." in Padua in 1713.

VALEGIO, FRANCESCO

VALEGIO (VALESIO), FRANCESCO, (the most productive period was in the second half of the 17th century). His most well-known works were Territorio di Cremona from 1600, Vicenza from 1611, Bolognese from 1620, Segna from 1616, and Piemonte from 1640. His work Raccolta di le piu illustri et famose citta di tutto il mondo, with vedute of the Adriatic, was published in 1600, as a sort of response to earlier printed collections of vedute by Forlani, Zeno and Bertelli. This publication was published and printed several times, and with each new edition the number of vedute grew. Finally, the Venetian publisher Donato Rasicoti published the last edition of this work with over 300 vedute, under the changed title „Nuove raccolte...“ between 1610 and 1620. Valegio also collaborated with Martin Rota, most of whose vedute he published in his work “Raccolta di le piu illustri…”.