Portugal Guarded This Map Like a Weapon. One Man Bought It for 12 Coins.

Portugal Guarded This Map Like a Weapon. One Man Bought It for 12 Coins.

He counted the coins out one at a time, and did not argue with the price.


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PORTUGAL GUARDED THIS MAP LIKE A WEAPON. ONE MAN BOUGHT IT FOR 12 COINS.


In 1502, the most closely guarded object in Europe was not a crown or a fleet. It was a sheet of animal skin, two metres across, showing coastlines that men had died to record. This is the story of what happened to it over the next four hundred years.


◈ Twelve gold ducats paid across a table in Lisbon, and a mapmaker who was never named

◈ A horse trader from a small Italian court, and the letter he wrote from Genoa

◈ A king who answered the loss by ordering his own craftsmen to scrape the coast off their charts

◈ A stone floor in Ferrara, and six skins glued edge to edge with Jerusalem at the centre of the world


Then the sheet stopped being worth anything at all — and stayed exactly the same.


The story of the Cantino planisphere, from the royal warehouse in Lisbon to the ducal library in Ferrara, and from a sacked palace in Modena to the wall of a butcher's shop.


History told with space to breathe.


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00:00:00 Twelve Coins on a Table

00:05:02 The Warehouse by the River

00:15:29 Jerusalem in the Middle

00:26:58 A Sea Chart in a City With No Sea

00:37:25 The Men Inside the Building

00:48:37 The Ink Stays, the Value Goes

00:58:51 Ninety Years, Then a Cart

01:09:46 The Year the Duke Left

01:19:26 The Name on the Back


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