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Hellenic peninsula: Greece, Albania, Bosnia and Bulgaria
Stefano Bonsignori1585
Palazzo Vecchio Museum
Firenze, Italy
The scroll reads: "Greece was first called Hellas, then took its name from Greco, its ancient prince...It later expanded and had the Ionian and Aegean seas as its limits. In the scientific studies and in the most noble arts it exceeded all nations, and in military valour it was inferior to no one before the greatness of the Roman Empire, and it dominated many parts of Asia and Europe." Photo: Rabatti & Domingie
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- Title: Hellenic peninsula: Greece, Albania, Bosnia and Bulgaria
- Creator Lifespan: 1589
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Firenze
- Creator Birth Place: Firenze
- Date Created: 1585
- cartographer: Stefano Bonsignori
- Theme: map
- Physical Dimensions: w98 x h115 cm (Complete)
- Original title: Penisola ellenica: Grecia, Albania, Bosnia e Bulgaria
- 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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