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Vesconte, Pietro

LC control no.no 00001644
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingVesconte, Pietro
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Variant(s)Vesconte, Petrus
Visconte, Pietro
Visconte, Petrus
Other standard no.000000039779710X
Beginning date1310
Ending date1330
LocatedGenoa (Italy)
Field of activityCartography
Profession or occupationCartographers Geographers
Found inL'Italia nella Divina commedia, 1922: t.p. (Pietro Vesconte; mapmaker)
English Wikipedia, viewed on Aug. 15th, 2023 (Pietro Vesconte (fl. 1310 -1330) was a Genoese cartographer and geographer. A pioneer of the field of the portolan chart, he influenced Italian and Catalan mapmaking throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He appears to have been the first professional mapmaker to sign and date his works regularly)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Vesconte>
Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek, viewed on Aug. 15th, 2023 (Vesconte, Pietro; active 1313-1318 as a cartographer in Genoa; variant names: Vesconte, Petrus; Visconti, Pietro; Visconti, Petrus)
   <https://d-nb.info/gnd/118626701>