The publishing dates are therefore the most plausible to use as finite, but the dates for the charts being produced may vary. He carried out Hydraulic Studies for Ferrara, Ravenna and Bologna in 1605 and is noted as such in a document dated 1607. It appears he was in Civitavecchia, 1596, at the behest of the Pope to restore the port, but his 1596 Portolan Chart is dated “Rome, Kal Jan anno MDXCVI. But in 1595 he was in Messina, the cartographic centre which at that time was the base for the OLIVES FAMILY of cartographers whose Portolan Charts are so well known today. Thus we know he sailed (among other voyages) from Civitavecchia to Naples between the islands of the Archipelago of Argentiara to Milos, was in Avignon as well as the Ionian and Aegean Seas. We can trace the places he visited from his second text, “Nautica Mediterranea di Bartolomeo Crescenzio Romano”, published in Rome in 1602.
In fact, Pope Sixtus V (1585-1592) inaugurated the “Permanent Squadron” to counter the Turkish Pirates. It was published in Naples, 1595.īut in 1596 he constructed a “Portolan Chart” of the Mediterranean Sea basin, which he states “corrects previous errors” and for the publication of “Nautica Mediterranea” produced a plain chart copy to be engraved and is bound into the text as will be discussed later. His first and extant text is entitled “Proteo Militare di Bartolomeo Romano, Divisio in tre libre”, and Osvaldo Baldacci states, “L’attivita marina del Crescenzio, avrebbe avuto inizio nel 1587 infatti, del “Proteo Militare”, apprendiamo che il 5 luglio del 1587, il Crescenzio era nell’isola di Scarpanto”. From these texts the only specific dates are between 15, with the possibility he entered marine service in 1570, serving on the Galee’s of that squadron. Several authors have endeavoured to produce a plausible lifeline story for B Crescenzio, but the only definitive result, because He states it is that he was employed in the Naval Ships of Pope Sixtus V and Pope Clement VIII. INTRODUCTION BARTOLOMEO CRESCENZIO, WHO WAS HE?
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