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Italian cartographer
Giovanni Matteo Contarini
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Giovanni Matteo Contarini (died 1507) was a cartographer, and a member of a prominent Venetian family.
Contarini compiled a famous world map that was engraved by Francesco Rosselli that is most often given the date 1506. The Contarini-Rosselli map is the oldest surviving printed map depicting any part of the American continent. The only known surviving copy of the Contarini-Rosselli map is in the British Library.
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