The International Prester John Project: How A Global Legend Was Created Across Six CenturiesMain MenuOrientation to ProjectPath One: 1122-1235Path Two: 1236-1310 ADPath Three : 1311-1460 ADPath Four : 1461-1520 ADPath Five: 1521-1699 ADPath Six: 1700-1800 ADChristopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f Global Middle Ages
Camaldonese
12024-01-03T19:56:24-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f52811plain2024-01-03T19:56:26-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6fKnown formally as the Camaldonese Hermits of Mount Corona, the Camaldolese is a monastic order based in central Italy. It was established by Italian monk Saint Romould (c. 950-c. 1027) who sought to bring back the hermetic way of life to Italian monastic living.
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12015-06-18T14:29:31-07:00Fra Mauro7plain2024-01-18T19:54:34-08:00Fra Mauro (c. 1400-1464) was an Italian cartographer and Camaldolese Monk from Venice. Although raised as a merchant and solider, he became an only somewhat hermetic monk and cartographer at the Monastery of St. Michael, located in the Venetian Lagoon on the island of Murano.
Around 1450 Mauro finished his greatest creation, a mappa mundi commonly known now as the Fra Mauro Map, which was the most detailed and accurate depiction of the world at the time. The map was commissioned by King Afonso V of Portugal for Prince Henry the Navigator, the uncle of the king.
