"Cantino's Map". Anonymous early 16th-century world map by a Portuguese cartographer commissioned by Alberto Cantino, agent of the Italian Duke of Ferrara in Italy. It depicts how the Portuguese succeeded in reaching India using a direct sea route. Copy of the original parchment in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena (Italy). Detail. Maritime Museum. Lisbon, Portugal.
"Cantino's Map". Anonymous early 16th-century world map by a Portuguese cartographer commissioned by Alberto Cantino, agent of the Italian Duke of Ferrara in Italy. It depicts how the Portuguese succeeded in reaching India using a direct sea route. Copy of the original parchment in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena (Italy). Detail. Maritime Museum. Lisbon, Portugal.