Proof with a watermark: Orb surmounted by a star
The date and address of Lafreri lower right.
1548
Antoine Lafréry, or Antonio Lafreri, was born Antoine du Pérac Lafréry, around 1512 in Franche-Comté and died in Rome in 1577. Engraver, cartographer and publisher he established himself in Rome around 1540 to trade in maps of geography and geography. prints whose reputation spread throughout Europe2. He collaborated with the most important Italian cartographers of the time: Giacomo Gastaldi, Battista Agnese, Antonio Salamanca, Francesco Camocio the Younger, Donato Bertelli, Ferando Bertelli and Paolo Forlani.