thumb|Planisphere by Leardo (1448)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nordenskiöld |first1=Adolf Erik |title=Periplus: An Essay on the Early History of Charts and Sailing Directions |date=1897 |publisher=P. A. Norstedt |location=Stockholm |at=Figure 21 |url=https://archive.org/details/nordenskiold-periplus}}</ref> '''Giovanni Leardo''' was a 15th-century Venetian geographer and cosmographer. Leardo made at least four mappae mundi, of which three survive today.<ref name="Edson2007">{{cite book|author=Evelyn Edson|title=The World Map, 1300-1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dhgYlhXJy_QC&pg=PA188|year=2007|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-8589-1|pages=188–}}</ref>
Leardo's 1442 map is held at the Biblioteca Communale Library in Verona. A 1447 map does not survive, but a 1448 map is held at the Museo Civico at Vicenza.<ref>Jim Siebold, [http://cartographic-images.net/Cartographic_Images/242_Leardo_World_Maps.html The Leardo World Maps]</ref> A 1453 map was donated by Archer M. Huntington to the American Geographical Society, and is the oldest world map in the library there.<ref name="WrightHoen1928">{{cite book|last=Wright|first=John Kirtland|authorlink=John Kirtland Wright|title=The Leardo map of the world: 1452 or 1453, in the collections of the American geographical society|url=https://archive.org/details/leardomapofworld00wrig|year=1928|publisher=American Geographical Society}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons Category|Giovanni Leardo}} * * [https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/538/ Leardo Mappamundi 1452]
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