Giovanni Battista Boazio

Giovanni Battista Boazio (also Baptista Boazio or Johannes B. Boazius ), whose birth and death dates are not known, was an Italian draftsman and cartographer.

During his creative life, the one dated to the period 1585-1606, he worked in England.

Became known Boazio end of the 1580s, when he a chart series with five hand-colored engravings created for the book Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage by Walter Bigges, illustrate the Sir Francis Drake's privateering in the Caribbean 1585/86. The card set consists of an English text Itinerary card and four Latin labeled Maps. They show the attacks on the Cape Verdean island of Santiago, at Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola, to Cartagena on the north coast of today's Colombia and St. Augustine on the Florida coast.

Drake's fleet off Santiago, Cape Verde, 1585

Drake's fleet off Santo Domingo, 1585

Drake's fleet off Cartagena 1585 /86 ( the card is flipped and facing east )

Drake's troops attack St. Augustine, Florida on July 7, 1586 (the card is facing west )

For his patron Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex, he designed a card, which was the attack on Cadiz in July 1596. In this confrontation sank a fleet of English and Dutch ships, under the command of Charles Howard, Walter Raleigh and the Earl of Essex, in the major Spanish port city of 32 Spanish ships and plundered and destroyed the city itself to Boazios card design created Thomas Cockson the engraving.

For the first printed atlas of England and Wales, published by Christopher Saxton, he created five cards.

In addition, created a Boazio Ireland map, which was not, as usually, oriented to the north, but west. The card that was submitted in 1599 and the English Queen Elizabeth I, was published in a new edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.