Vincenzo Maria Coronelli was an Italian Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist known in particular for his atlases and globes.
10 Facts About Vincenzo Coronelli
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At ten, young Vincenzo was sent to the city of Ravenna and was apprenticed to a xylographer.
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In 1671 he entered the Convent of Saint Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, and in 1672 Vincenzo Coronelli was sent by the order to the College of Saint Bonaventura and Saints Apostoli in Rome where he earned his doctor's degree in theology in 1674.
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Vincenzo Coronelli excelled in the study of both astronomy and Euclid.
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Vincenzo Coronelli worked in various European countries in the following years, before permanently returning to Venice in 1705.
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Vincenzo Coronelli held the position of Cosmographer of the Republic of Venice.
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Vincenzo Coronelli died at the age of 68 in Venice, having created hundreds of maps in his lifetime.
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Vincenzo Coronelli moved to the French capital in 1681, where he lived for two years.
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The most famous Vincenzo Coronelli globes are divided into 2 groups: the first includes the Globes manufactured for the Duke of Parma and Louis XIV, which are unique for their extraordinary quality; the second one includes those built since 1688, as result of the fame of the first.
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Vincenzo Coronelli commissioned ta man to buy them in Venice just with the intent of equipping the monastery library with essential tools of culture.