Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria, 1650-1718

Italian Franciscan friar, cartographer, geographer, and theologian. He studied carpentry in Ravenna before returning to his native Venice. He entered the Franciscan order in the mid-1660s, studied theology in Rome, and soon after was appointed provincial secretary for the mainland of Venice. He left this office to focus on geography, employed in Parma and in Paris to build globes. In 1684, he founded the Accademia cosmografica degli Argonauti. The following year he was made cosmographer of the Republic of Venice, publishing the Memorie istoriografiche del Regno di Morea e Negroponte (1685), Il Mediterraneo descritto (1688), and L'Atlante veneto (1690). He was widely travelled and had formidable patrons throughout Europe, all the while active in administrative and diplomatic capacities for the Franciscan order. His most imposing work was the seven-volume encyclopedic Biblioteca universale sacro-profana, antico-moderna (1701-1709). He died in Venice on December 9, 1718.

HMML ID
806870218853
PURL
https://w3id.org/haf/person/806870218853
LC name
Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
HMML name
Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria, 1650-1718
Library of Congress
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50036527
VIAF
https://viaf.org/viaf/27133664
Getty
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/500032194

Variants

  • Corneille, Marc Vicent
  • Cornelius, Vincentius
  • Coronelli, Marco Vincenzo
  • Coronelli, Vicenzo Maria
  • Koronelli, Vinchent︠s︡o Marii︠a︡
  • Βιντσένζο Μαρία Κορονέλλι
  • Коронелли, Винченцо Мария
  • וינצ'נזו קורונלי
  • فينتشنزو كورونيلى

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Given names
Vincenzo
Family names
Coronelli

Personal information

Birth date
1650-08-16
Death date
1718-12-09
Centuries
17th century CE ● 18th century CE
Gender
Males
Place born
Place died
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Honorary titles
Provincial secretary
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Citations
Augusto De Ferrari, "CORONELLI, Vincenzo," Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Treccani, vol. 29 (1983), https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vincenzo-coronelli_(Dizionario-Biografico)/.

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"Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria, 1650-1718." HMML Authority File. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Last modified December 08, 2023. https://w3id.org/haf/person/806870218853

Change notes

Date added
2021-06-28
Last edited
2023-12-08

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