The Newberry Library has digitized a major collection of early modern European and world maps printed in Italy.

“The Newberry has recently completed the digitization of over 750 maps printed in Italy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Franco Novacco Map Collection, one of the strongest of its kind in the world, reflects Europeans’ evolving conceptions of the world during a time of widespread exploration and colonization.”

The high-resolution digitized images of these early modern maps will offer researchers the opportunity to examine the maps in greater detail than before.

Undergraduate and graduate students in History at Northern Illinois may be interested in utilizing these digitized maps in their research projects for courses in early modern European, Mediterranean world, Atlantic world, and global history.

For more information on the Franco Novacco Map Collection and the digitization project, see the Newberry Library website.