page_title: Angelino Dulcert
section_title: Dalorto 1325 Map
hierarchical_section_title: Angelino Dulcert / Dalorto 1325 Map
caption_attribution_description: English: Part of the portolan chart commonly known as the 1325 map of Angelino Dalorto (prob. same person as Angelino Dulcert, real name probably Angelino Dulceto or Dulceti, and this chart really dated 1330). It is held in the collection of Prince Corsini in Florence. This image is cropped. The full Dalorto portolan includes more of North Africa and Eastern Europe, the Black Sea, the Middle East, and parts of northern Europe and the Baltics.
context_page_description: Angelino Dulcert, probably also the same person known as Angelino de Dalorto, and whose real name was probably Angelino de Dulceto or Dulceti or possibly Angelí Dolcet, was an Italian-Majorcan cartographer.
  He is responsible for two notable 14th-century portolan charts, the "Dalorto" chart of 1325 and the "Dulcert" chart of 1339. The latter is the first portolan known to have been produced in Palma, and considered the founding piece of the Majorcan cartographic school. He is also believed to be the author of a third undated and unsigned chart held in London.
context_section_description: Angelino "Dalorto" is known for a portolan chart commonly dated 1325 (now revised to 1330),  privately held by the Prince Corsini collection in Florence.  Its signature was traditionally read as "Hoc opus fecit Angelinus de Dalorto ano dñi MCCXXV de mense martii composuit hoc" (and since re-read as "Angelinus de Dulceto'" and "ano dñi MCCXXX", thus the revision of the name to "Dulceto" and the year to 1330).
  In many ways, the 1325 Dalorto portolan marks a transition point in European portolans, between the Genoese and Majorcan cartographic schools.  For the most part, Dalorto follows the restrained coast-focused Italian style, exemplified by the early portolans of his Genoese predecessor Pietro Vesconte, but he also begins moving away from its sparseness by illustrating inland details, such as miniature cities, mountain ranges and rivers, a tendency will flourish in the later Majorcan school.  Indeed, some of Dalorto's details here presage the standard Majorcan stylings (e.g. Red Sea colored red, the Atlas Mountains shaped like a palm tree, the chicken-foot Alps, the Danube's "hillocks").
  Among its advances in geographic knowledge, the Dalorto map gives a better picture of northern Europe (particularly the Baltic Sea) than its predecessors.
  The Dalorto chart is also the first to depict the legendary island of Brasil, as circular disk-shaped island southwest of Ireland. It is denoted by the caption "Insula de monotonis siue de brazile" ("isle of sheep (?) or of brasil").
caption: Part of 1325 portolan of Angelino Dalorto
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