Giovanni Battista Boazio
Italian draftsman and cartographer
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Giovanni Battista Boazio or Battista Boazio (fl. 1588 – 1606) was an Italian draftsman and cartographer. He mapped Sir Francis Drake's voyage to the West Indies and America.
He spent a long period working in England, and made a map of Ireland that was then used in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. He was sponsored by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex to draw a map illustrating the Capture of Cádiz, which was engraved by Thomas Cockson.[1] Other cartographic drawings includes Cartagena, Santo Domingo in the island of Hispaniola, Saint Augustine, Florida[2] and the Cape Verdean island of Santiago, the Santiago engraving was one of the first to depict of that of any island in Cape Verde.
