Visconte Maggiolo
Visconte Maggiolo, also spelled Maiollo and Maiolo, was a Genoese cartographer.
He was born in Genoa and maybe he was a fellow sailor of explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano. In 1511 he moved to Naples, where he produced three extant nautical atlases. Some historians say that he died of malaria in 1530; but archival documents show that he was still alive, in Genoa, at least in 1549, although he certainly was already dead in 1561.
In 1527, he created a map depicting Verrazzano's travels. This map had a major error, is dated Genoa, 1549.Gallery
