Giovanni Battista Boazio or Battista Boazio (

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1588 – 1606) was an Italian draftsman and cartographer. He mapped Sir

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's voyage to the West Indies and America. Boazio-Sir Francis Drake in Cartagena

He spent a long period working in England, and made a map of Ireland that was then used in the ''

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''. He was sponsored by

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to draw a map illustrating the

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, which was engraved by

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. Other cartographic drawings includes Cartagena de las Indias,

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in the island of Hispaniola,

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and the Cape Verdean island of

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, the Santiago engraving was one of the first to depict of that of any island in Cape Verde.

References

*Carl Moreland and David Bannister (1986), ''Antique Maps'', p. 71.

Notes

External links

WorldCat page

Reuters
Rare old British atlas sells for $1.3 million
''Map and views Illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage,''
1585-6. From the Collections at the

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“The Political Force of Images,” Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820.
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