Early 16th century prospect of Athens
El principio del Regno d'Athene.
Venice: c.1503. Woodcut, 65 x 85mm, set in Italian text.
£120.00
Description
An early diagrammatic prospect of Athens from Foresti da Bergamo's 'Novissime Hystoriae'. On the reverse are view of Chalkida and Epidavros in Dalmatia.
Foresti was a noted historian in his day: his 'Supplementum Chronicarum' (1491), was plagarised by Hartmann Schedel, appearing word for word in the more famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle' (1493).












