FLORIMI, Matteo. - FIORENZA [FLORENCE].

At the lower left, a numbered key refers to the place names of the Fortezza da Basso; at the lower right, a numbered key, 1-228 refers to the remarkable places of the city : "Luoghi notable."

The image is a simplified re-proposition, according to the use of the printer Matteo Florimi, of the 1594 edition of the Florence by Bonsignori , as demonstrated by the elimination of the column in Piazza San Marco and the series of toponymic references. It is more likely that it is a copy of the Rascicotti map, to which it is identical except for the absence of the dedication to Ferdinand 

1. According to Mori-Boff, the dating can be restricted to the time span between 1594, the year of publication of the second version of the view by Bonsignori from which it is derived, and 1613, the year of the death of Matteo Florimi: after this date, the prints issued by the Sienese workshop bear the excudit of the heirs. 

2°: Florimi's address is erased by two lines but still legible. This edition can be attributed to the presses of the Sienese publisher Pietro Petrucci, who acquired most of Florimi's plates.