Il Ducato die Meklenburgo che e parte della Bassa Sassonia,..

Title

Il Ducato die Meklenburgo che e parte della Bassa Sassonia,..

Description

Map shows the Duchy of Mecklenburg, Schwerin, the Duchy of Rostock with the town of Ribnitz, and the Darß Peninsula. It also features a title banner and a cartouche bearing the coat of arms of Cardinal Ciacomo Franzoni.

c. 1692

Artist

Cantelli da Vignola/Rossi (1680-)

Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola (1643 - 1695) was an important Italian cartographer and engraver Cantelli was born in Montorsello, near Vignola Italy to a prominent local family. After studying literature at the University of Bologna, Cantelli took a position as secretary to the Marquis Obizzi de Ferrara. Eventually Cantelli relocated to Venice where developed an interest in cartography. He later traveled to Paris in the company of the French ambassador where became acquainted with the French cartographer Guillaume Sanson, as well as his contemporaries Jacques-Andre Duval and Michel-Antoin Baudrand. It was most likely the influence of these innovative French cartographers that inspired Cantelli's careful and meticulous approach, in which he based his cartography not just on earlier maps, but also very much in the French style upon accounts written by travelers and merchants regarding actual travel to foreign lands. Back in Italy, Cantelli took service Count Rinieri Marescotti, with whom he traveled extensively throughout Italy, becoming in the process acquainted with the Italian publisher Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi. It is with Rossi that Cantelli began officially publishing his maps. The earliest maps to bear the Cantelli-Rossi imprint date to 1672 and detail the Holy Land, Persia, and the Ottoman Empire. Around 1680 the duo also began to publish the Mercurio Geografico, a large format atlas illustrating all parts of the world in a splendid Italian baroque detail defined by elaborate finely engraved cartouche work, high quality paper, and bold Roman lettering, and dark rich inks. Some have compared his style go that of Giovanni Antonio Magini, another Italian cartographer of the previous generation. Cantelli da Vignola in fact pioneered the Italian style of fine bold engraving that would eventually be embraced and expanded upon by Vincenzo Coronelli. His work drew the attention of Pope Innocent XI and Reggio Francesco II d'Este, the Duke of Modena, both of whom offered him a position as court geographer. Cantelli chose to work with the Due of Modena, in the service of whom he produced numerous maps and well as two large globes.

Historical Description

The name Mecklenburg ("Mikelenburg") appears for the first time in a document from the year 995. At that time it referred to the Slavic castle Mecklenburg (Wiligrad) in today's village of Mecklenburg near Wismar and means something like "Great Castle". The history of Mecklenburg encompasses developments in the German region of Mecklenburg from prehistory to the present. It begins with the first post-glacial settlement from around 10,000 BC. A. These hunters, fishermen and gatherers were followed by rural cultures in the 4th millennium. In the early Middle Ages Mecklenburg was settled by Slavs and the permanent incorporation of Mecklenburg into the Holy Roman Empire began, which was only interrupted by the period of Danish occupation from 1180 to 1227. From 1200, German settlers from Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Friesland and Holstein moved into the country. The bull's head appears for the first time as the Mecklenburg coat of arms around 1219. In the high Middle Ages, Mecklenburg was under the influence of the Hanseatic League. After the German Hanseatic League was established under the leadership of Lübeck at the end of the 13th century, the Mecklenburg cities of Rostock and Wismar soon joined the powerful trade alliance. Between 1628 and 1630 the Obotrite dukes were deposed by Emperor Ferdinand II during the Thirty Years' War and his general Wallenstein was enfeoffed with Mecklenburg. In 1713 there was a conflict between Duke Karl Leopold, the regent of the Schwerin region, and the Mecklenburg estates, which lasted until 1717. After complaints from the Mecklenburg estates before the emperor against Karl Leopold's breaches of law and autocratic efforts, Emperor Karl VI. In 1717 the execution of the empire was imposed on the duke. As a long-term consequence of the execution of the empire, larger areas in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin part of the state were lost by pledging eight offices to the elector of Hanover and four offices to the Prussian king. After a long struggle, Christian Ludwig II concluded with the estates in 1755 the Land constitutional inheritance settlement, which was subsequently ratified by Adolf Friedrich IV. And his mother. This hereditary comparison led to the further consolidation of the power of the Mecklenburg knighthood and preserved the backwardness of the country until the end of the monarchy in Mecklenburg (1918). The state of Mecklenburg was thus a principality until 1918 and was ruled by the same ruling family, the Obodrites, with only a two-year break from its incorporation into the Holy Roman Empire until 1918. Today Mecklenburg forms the western two thirds of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The history of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as a political unit begins in 1945 with the unification of the state of Mecklenburg (the historical parts of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz) with the part of Western Pomerania that remained with Germany (excluding Stettin). The regions of the country had previously had a largely independent history for centuries. In the course of an administrative reform in the GDR, the country was dissolved in 1952 and divided into three districts (Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg). The state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was re-established in 1990 with a new regional structure and with reunification became a state of the Federal Republic of Germany.