Giovanni Battista Boazio or Battista Boazio ( – 1606) was an Italian draftsman and cartographer. He mapped Sir Francis Drake's voyage to the West Indies and America.
He spent a long period working in England, and made a map of Ireland that was then used in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. He was sponsored by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex to draw a map illustrating the Capture of Cádiz, which was engraved by Thomas Cockson.Paul E. J. Hammer, The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: the political career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597 (1999), p. 253 note 304; Google Books. Other cartographic drawings includes Cartagena, Santo Domingo in the island of Hispaniola, Saint Augustine, Florida and the Cape Verdean island of Santiago, the Santiago engraving was one of the first to depict of that of any island in Cape Verde.
References
Further reading Carl Moreland and David Bannister (1986), Antique Maps, p. 71.
External links
WorldCat page Reuters Rare old British atlas sells for $1.3 million Map and views Illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 1585-6. From the Collections at the Library of Congress “The Political Force of Images,” Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820.