Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]
1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at...
Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
1533-1617. Född i Bene i Piedmont, död i Torino.
Italiensk präst och författare. Studerade vid jesuitkollegiet i Torino, 1576-84 sekreterare hos Carlo Borromeo och ärkebiskop av Milano. Kom i tjänst hos hertig Carl Emmanuel I av Savoyen, bl.a. som diplomat. Slutligen blev han abbot i 'San Michele delle Chiusa' i Piemont. Förutom sin 'Relationi universali' gav han ut en rad statsrättsliga och politiska skrifter. I politiskt hänseende var han en bestämd motståndare till Macchiavelli. Hans skrifter, som var författade på italienska, fick stor utbredning genom översättningar till andra språk.
Bland arbeten.
Relationi universali.
Encicl. Ital. - Th. und K.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
'Stockholms skärgård. Norra delen'. - Stockholm 1887.
