Piero Falchetta
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Piero Falchetta is head of the department of ancient maps at the Biblioteca Marciana
in Venice
(Italy) and a specialist of medieval travel writing, history of cartography and history of navigation. He currently lives in his native Venice
. One of his most recent contribution to medieval cartography
is a critical edition of Fra Mauro
's World Map, published in 2006. Recent contributions to the history of navigation are the essays on Michael of Rhodes' nautical writings, and the edition of Benedetto Cotrugli
's treatise De navigatione (1464–65). He is also author of literary essays and translations. His most notable translation is La scomparsa (1995) Italian translation on Georges Perec
's lipogrammatic novel La disparition (1969) (English translation A Void, 1994), which was awarded the 1996 Leone Traverso debut prize in the Monselice Literary Prize.
Biblioteca Marciana
The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana is a library and Renaissance building in Venice, northern Italy; it is one of the earliest surviving public manuscript depositories in the country, holding one of the greatest classical texts collections in the world. The library is named after St. Mark, the...
in Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
(Italy) and a specialist of medieval travel writing, history of cartography and history of navigation. He currently lives in his native Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
. One of his most recent contribution to medieval cartography
Cartography
Cartography is the study and practice of making maps. Combining science, aesthetics, and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively.The fundamental problems of traditional cartography are to:*Set the map's...
is a critical edition of Fra Mauro
Fra Mauro
Fra Mauro, O.S.B. Cam., was a 15th-century Camaldolese monk who lived in the Republic of Venice. He was a monk of the Monastery of St. Michael, located on the island of Murano in the Venetian Lagoon. It was there that he maintained a cartography workshop.In his youth, Mauro had traveled...
's World Map, published in 2006. Recent contributions to the history of navigation are the essays on Michael of Rhodes' nautical writings, and the edition of Benedetto Cotrugli
Benedetto Cotrugli
Benedikt "Beno" Kotruljević was a Dubrovnik merchant, economist, scientist, diplomat and humanist...
's treatise De navigatione (1464–65). He is also author of literary essays and translations. His most notable translation is La scomparsa (1995) Italian translation on Georges Perec
Georges Perec
Georges Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist and essayist. He is a member of the Oulipo group...
's lipogrammatic novel La disparition (1969) (English translation A Void, 1994), which was awarded the 1996 Leone Traverso debut prize in the Monselice Literary Prize.