EDWARD WELLS

Early town plan of Vilnius by Francesco Valegio.

Appeared in: "Universus Terrarum Orbis (..)" by Alphonso Lasor à Varea and published by Frambotti, Jo. Baptistæ Conzatti in Padua, Italy, 1713.

Lasor a Varea, whose real name was Raffaello Savonarola, published his two-volume scriptural and historical dictionary with nearly 500 maps that were taken from old plates by Valegio, Porcacchi, Rosaccio-Franco, and Magini, many of which were more than a century old, and often reworked.