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English: Worldmap from the Portolan Atlas Dedicated to Hieronymus Ruffault, Abbot of St. Vaast. The map shows the world as it was known, the route that Magellan took around the world, and the route from Cadiz, Spain, to Peru, with overland portage across the Isthmus of Panama. This was the route of the treasure ships that carried vast amounts of silver from Peru to Spain.
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Source Library of Congress, American Memory
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Battista Agnese  (1500–1564)  wikidata:Q612967
 
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Battista Giovanni Agnese
Description cartographer
Date of birth/death 1500 Edit this at Wikidata 1564 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Genoa Edit this at Wikidata
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Venetian Republic
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