Niccolò Tedesco (a.k.a. Nicolaus Laurentii; Niccolò di Lorenzo) was a German printer who lived in Florence during the late 15th century. He most likely learned the basics of printing in his native Wroclaw. Tedesco was among the first Italian printers to use copper plate engravings, and he was behind a number of important works from the Italian Renaissance.
Having moved from what is today Poland to Florence, Tedesco first worked in a nunnery of the Dominican Order, where the sisters served as compositors and printers. Among Tedesco’s most famous works, we find Cristoforo Landino’s commentary to Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy (first printed in 1472) and the Septe Giornate della Geographia di Francesco Berlinghieri, which was among the first printed atlases based on Ptolemy.
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[Persia & Mesopotamia] Tabula Quinta de Asia.
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- One of the oldest maps of Persia and Mesopotamia, the Cradle of Civilizations.
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[Sri Lanka] Tabula Duodecima Dasia
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- Francesco Berlinghieri and Niccolò Tedesco’s formative 1482 map of Sri Lanka.
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[Libya and Egypt] Tabula Tertia Di Libya.
- A rare and stunning 15th-century rendition of Greater Egypt, in full color and heightened in gold.
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[India-Pakistan-Bangladesh-Tibet] Tabula Decima Dasia.
- One of the earliest printed maps of South Asia ever produced.
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