Gabon, Angola and Congo
Stefano Bonsignori1580
Palazzo Vecchio Museum
Firenze, Italy
The scroll reads: "What reason moved Hercules, who ruled over Italy and Spain, to prohibit the navigation beyond the strait of Gibraltar, it is unknown. The valiant and very cautious man considered it was wise to forbid the commerce between our people and these people... But the wish for honour, together with the desire of conquest, led the Portoguese and others to go there and disturb the peace of these people. This in turn led the Ethiopian to try to obtain supremacy over these lands and get rid of the Portoguese, wishing to keep these people in their usual peace." Photo: Rabatti&Domingie
- Title: Gabon, Angola and Congo
- Creator Lifespan: 1589
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Firenze
- Creator Birth Place: Firenze
- Date Created: 1580
- cartographer: Stefano Bonsignori
- Theme: map
- Physical Dimensions: w112 x h118 cm (Complete)
- Original title: Gabon, Angola e Congo
- Historical information: The panels in the Maps'Room are 53. 30 out of these were realized by the dominican friar from Perugia Egnazio Danti, the court cosmographer from 1553 to 1575; the remaining 23 were realized by the olivetan monk Stefano Bonsignori from 1576 to 1586. The panels show all the world as known at the time.
- Type: oil painting on wood
- Rights: Comune di Firenze, Comune di Firenze
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