Girolamo Porro
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Girolamo Porro (c. 1520-?) was an Italian engraver on wood and on copper. He was born at Padua, but worked during the greater part of his life at Venice. He engraved for a book entitled Imprese illustri di diversi, published by Gamillo Camilli in 1535. He also executed the plates for the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto, published at Venice in [[1548 ; for the Funerali antichi di diversi Popoli et Natione, by Tommaso Poreacchi, published in 1574 ; and the portraits for the Sommario delle Vite do' Duchi di Milano by Scipione Barbuo, 1574. The maps in Ruscelli's translation of the Geographia of Ptolemy, 1574, and the views in Porcaochi's Isole piu famose del Mondo, 1575, are likewise by him.
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- Bryan, Michael (1889). in Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 305.
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