Vincenzo Coronelli
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Vincenzo Maria Coronelli was an Italian Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist known in particular for his atlases and globes. He is considered one of the leading g
Coronelli from the frontispiece of the folio edition of Atlante Veneto, c. 1710
The terrestrial globe Coronelli made for Louis XIV.
The celestial globe Coronelli made for Louis XIV.
America Settentrionale Colle Nuove Scoperte fin all' Anno 1688, from Atlante Veneto
The Order of Friars Minor Conventual is a male religious fraternity in the Catholic Church and a branch of the Franciscan Order. Conventual Franciscan Friars are identified by the affix O.F.M. Conv. a
Vincenzo Coronelli
…named Maffio Coronelli. At ten, young Vincenzo was sent to the city of Ravenna and was apprenticed to a xylographer. In 1663 he was accepted into the Conventual Franciscans, becoming a novice in 1665. At age sixteen he published the first of his one hundred forty separate works. In 1671 he entered the Convent of Saint Maria…
Basilica of St. Francis, Assisi, the most important church of the Order, where the saint's body is preserved.
A Conventual Franciscan in Brazil