FRANCESCO VALEGIO, MARTIN ROTA KOLUNIĆ: PLAN OF ZADAR

This plan of Zadar, observed from a bird's eye view, was also published by Francesco Valegio in his work Nuova raccolta di le piu illustri et famose citta di tutto mondo, as a result of collaboration with the Šibenik engraver Martin Rota Kolunić. It was published in Venice by the publisher Donato Rasicoti in the first decade of the 17th century. The city is located on a peninsula, fortified by three rows of ramparts on the mainland, surrounded by corner towers and separated from the hinterland by a trench. It is interesting that the interior of the city is empty, and the author marked only a few horsemen and spearmen and a church with a bell tower. In front of the city is a large galley with a dense row of oars. The city's hinterland to the north is an uninhabited hillside, and to the east, reached by a bridge at the city gate, is an empty plain. A similar example of a map of a city within fortifications in the Felbar Collection is a Dubrovnik veduta from the end of the century (inv. no. 458). With these works, Valegio responded to the earlier printed atlases of Zenoi, Bertelli, and Forlani, and in each of his re-editions the number of vedute of the towns increased.