Fra Mauro

Venetian cartographer (c. 1400 – 1464)

Fra Mauro (c. 1400 – 1464) was an Italian cartographer who lived in the Republic of Venice. He created the most detailed and accurate map of the world up until that time, the Fra Mauro map. Mauro was a monk of the Camaldolese Monastery of St.

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