Anniversaries 180 KiG 2006, 6 Pietro Coppo 450 Years After his Death He was born in Venice in 1469 or 1470, and died in Isola in 1555 or 1556. He was trained by the Venetian humanist Marcantonio Sabellico and then spent several years travelling across Italy and all over the Mediterranean. Coppo start- ed working as a municipal clerk, often changing place of residence. During this period, he came to Isola, where he worked as a notary public. At the end of 1505, acting as a speaker, he demanded from the doge in Venice that certain freedoms be granted to Isola. Owing to the fact that he accomplished his task successfully, Coppo was granted the status of citizen and counsellor by the Council of Isola in 1506, which opened him the door to the highest positions in the Council of Isola and in dealings with the Republic. He pro- duced his greatest work, a manuscript atlas titled De toto orbe in Isola in 1520. Coppo collected the data for this work partly on expeditions and partly by study- ing both older and more recent geograph- ical works. The atlas contains a map of the Balkan Peninsula with a representa- tion of Croatia. The work, which is in man- uscript, consists of four volumes contain- ing 22 general and hand made maps. Two manuscript copies have been preserved, one in Biblioteca Comunale dellArchiginnassio in Bologna, and the other in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Par- is. Coppo produced an abridged version of the same work under the title De sum- ma totius orbis. It consists of four books and contains 15 maps, the most signifi- cant among them being a map of the Bal- kan Peninsula and a map of Istria from 1525, which is dedicated to doge Anerea Gritti. Istria is represented at the approx- imate scale of 1:280 000, and the map, apart from general geographic content, typical of the period, such as hydrograph- ical data and schematic representation of mountains, contains 296 toponyms. Sev- eral manuscript copies of the map have been preserved in Piran, Venice and Paris codices. In 1528, in the Venice printing house of Agostino di Bindoni, Coppo pub- lished Portolano, a collection of sea charts, several manuscript copies of which have been preserved in the Paris codex, the Piran codex and in the codex of the British Museum in London. How- ever, the original has not been preserved in a complete form, probably because of its frequent usage. Del sito de LIstria, a booklet of only 13 pages, contains data of Coppos expeditions of Istria com- pounded with data obtained by older ge- ographers and historians. It was finished in 1529 and published in 1540 in Venice. This work, divided into two parts, is the first geographic description of Istria that contains descriptions of towns, villages, islands, ports and rivers. Coppo enclosed a general map of Istria printed in wood- cut, which is a reduced version of the above-mentioned map from 1525. Cop- pos map of Istria, edited for Lafreri by Fernando Bertelli, was published posthu- mously in 1569. In his famous atlas The- atrum Orbis Terarum, Ortelius used Cop- pos maps for the representation of west- ern Croatia. Ivka Kljajiæ, Miljenko Lapaine Histriae tabula, map of Istria by Pietro Coppo, printed in Orteliuss Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1573. The source for this map was Coppos map of Istria from 1525, as cited in the cartouche. The Novak Collection (ZN-Z-XVI-COP-1573) Coppova karta Istre objavljena u Ortelijusovu atlasu iz 1573. U kartui pie da je izvornik za tu kartu Coppova karta Istre iz 1525. godine. Zbirka Novak (ZN-Z-XVI-COP-1573)