Zichmni, prince, lord of Sorant, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1
in Greenland, 7.1, 7.2
military missions of, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
theories on possible identity of, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
voyage to North America of
see also Sinclair, Henry, earl of Orkney, lord of Rosslyn
Zurla, Placido
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
col1.1 Carta de navegar, from Dello scoprimento, Venice: Marcolini, 1558. Biblioteca Marciana. Photo Pamela Berry.
prl.1 Veritas filia temporis, from Dello scoprimento, Venice: Marcolini, 1558. Biblioteca Marciana. Photo Pamela Berry.
1.1 Nicolò Zen the Younger (1515–1565) by Titian (c. 1487/90–1576), at Kingston Lacy. Portrait bought by William Bankes in Bologna, 1820, Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection (National Trust), ©NTPL/Derrick E. Witty.
1.2 Francesco Marcolini. Raccolte Piancastelli, Museo comunale di Forlì. The author thanks Antonella Imolesi and Ambra Raggi for their help.
1.3 Giovanni Battista Ramusio. Museum Mazzuchellianum. Biblioteca Marciana. Photo Pamela Berry.
2.1 Battaglia di Chioggia, Alessandro Grevenbroeck, 1717. Museo Correr, Fondazione musei civici di Venezia.
2.2 Two Venetian cogs. Jacopo de Barbari, Map of Venice (detail), 1550. Museo Correr, Fondazione musei civici di Venezia.
3.1 Frislanda. Detail from the Carta de navegar. Venice: Marcolini, 1558. Biblioteca Marciana. Photo Pamela Berry.
3.2 Fixlanda. Detail from the Mateo Prunes Map of 1553. Biblioteca comunale degli Intronati di Siena.
4.1 Estlanda. Detail from the Carta da navegar. Venice: Marcolini, 1558. Biblioteca Marciana. Photo Pamela Berry.
5.1 Islanda. Detail from the Carta da navegar. Venice: Marcolini, 1558. Biblioteca Marciana. Photo Pamela Berry.
6.1 Icaria, Estotiland, Drogio. Detail from the Carta da navegar. Venice: Marcolini, 1558. Biblioteca Marciana. Photo Pamela Berry.
7.1 Engroneland. Detail from the Carta de navegar, Venice: Marcolini, 1558. Biblioteca Marciana. Photo Pamela Berry.
8.1 Detail of the Zen houses. Jacopo de Barbari, Map of Venice (detail), 1550. Museo Correr, Fondazione musei civici di Venezia.
8.2 Floor plan of Palazzo Zen. Museo Correr, Fondazione musei civici di Venezia.
8.3 Gerardus Mercator. Private Collection/Ken Welsh/The Bridgeman Art Library.
8.4 Detail of Mercator’s World Map of 1569. Bibliothèque Nationale de Cartes et Plans, Paris, France/The Bridgeman Art Library.
8.5 Portrait of John Dee (1547–1608) (oil on canvas) by English School (seventeenth century). Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library Nationality.
8.6 Vincenzo Coronelli, map of the New World, 1688. Collection of Girolamo Marcello. Photo Pamela Berry.
9.1 Palazzo Zen. Archive of Sarah Quill. Photo Sarah Quill.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANDREA DI ROBILANT was born in Italy and educated at Columbia University, where he specialized in international affairs. He is the author of two previous books, A Venetian Affair and Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon. He currently lives in Rome with his wife and two children.
The Carta de navegar by Nicolò Zen the Younger, published by Francesco Marcolini in 1558
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The Battle of Chioggia (1381) was the final turning point in the century-long war between Venice and Genoa for supremacy in the Mediterranean. Carlo Zen, aided by his brother Nicolò, played a decisive role in Venice’s last-minute victory.
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ALSO BY ANDREA DI ROBILANT
A Venetian Affair
Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon
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