Napoli e il suo golfo nei portolani tardomedievali

A manuscript from the second half of the fifteenth century, preserved at the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome from the collection of cardinal Domenico Passionei, depicts Naples and its sealine from an original perspective. It contains, in fact, a collage of different portolans, texts written for the sailors - and useful for their apprenticeship - which describe in detail the nature of the Mediterranean coasts. The transcriptions reported in the appendix focus on the coastline from Gaeta to the Amalfi Coast, and gives geographical information deriving from both "classical" and technical-experiential knowledge, on the one hand coming from the milieu to which even the nautical charts belong, on the other product of a more intense maritime activity.