Translation of title: Greater Turkey
Legend lower left: "Description of the Turkish empire."
This map printed and plagiarized by Pietro Maria Marchetti in 1598 from an EPITOME (miniature Theatrum Obis Terrarum) by Phillip Galle. Galles’s edition was presumably approved by Ortelius. Marchetti (1565 -1614), was a publisher and printer in Breccia, Italy and Venice, Italy. This a very close copy of Galle’s EPITOME which Marchetti titled: “IL TEATRO DEL MONDO." Pirated editions of atlases and maps were very common. They were less expensive to produce and there were no copyright laws at that time. See previous map annotations for history of Galle, and the portrait annotation for Ortelius’ history.
References:
1. Pietro Maria Marchetti Wikipedia.org (??? can't find)
2. Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers
Curated text by Leonard Rothman December 2020.
Image from The Leonard and Juliet Rothman Holy Lands Map Collection at Stanford Libraries: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/11460914
