Gianni Brandozzi Collection is constantly evolving. In the current possession, which includes over two thousand papers and printed views of Italy and Europe, dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, there are woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, drawings, documents of the historical-political evolution of our territory and of the whole of Europe, depicting roads, borders and geographies that have disappeared.

The historical itinerary of the cartography begins with the Tabula Militaris Itineraria, an exact reprint of the original 4th-century Tavola Peutingeriana, the oldest travel document of the Roman empire that depicts in detail the world then known. The reprint, the first one made in Italy, in Jesi, in the XVIII century, composed of 12 sheets and 6.80 meters long, is the only example available for exhibitions. The 16th century card system is very rich: dated 1511 is the Italy of Sylvanus, the first known example of two-color printed paper, red and black, with a trapezoidal shape; in 1540 Munster realizes his Universal Cosmography in which he describes Europe with the unusual south-north orientation, admiring in this way the completely overturned Peninsula. Still in 1589 the Bunting, in his Bible Itinerarium Sacrae Scritturae, drawing Europe in the shape of the whole of Europe, depicting roads, borders and geographies that have disappeared. The historical itinerary of the cartography begins with the Tabula Militaris Itineraria, an exact reprint of the original 4th-century Tavola Peutingeriana, the oldest travel document of the Roman empire that depicts in detail the world then known. The reprint, the first one made in Italy, in Jesi, in the XVIII century, composed of 12 sheets and 6.80 meters long, is the only example available for exhibitions. The 16th century card system is very rich: dated 1511 is the Italy of Sylvanus, the first known example of two-color printed paper, red and black, with a trapezoidal shape; in 1540 Munster realizes his Universal Cosmography in which he describes Europe with the unusual south-north orientation, admiring in this way the completely overturned Peninsula. Still in 1589 the Bunting, in his Bible Itinerarium Sacrae Scritturae, drawing Europe in the shape of a queen, depicts Italy as the right arm of the continent summarizing the balance of Christian monarchies in the imposing reign of Charles V.

At the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, after the discovery of the ancient manuscripts of Ptolemy (2nd century), Ptolemaic maps are re-proposed by the sixteenth century cartographers, including Munster, Ortelio and Magini. The seventeenth is the century of beautiful figurative papers; one emerges from the ancient models of the "schematic" representation of the Italian territory to move on to a representation that also narrates the customs of the peoples of the peninsula. It is the case of the cards of Visscher in Tabula Italiae, Corsicae, Sardiniae et adjacentium Regnorum of 1652 or of Speed ​​in Italy (Prospect of the Most Famous Part of the World) of 1676, colorful and full of detailed details aimed to immortalize Italy of the seventeenth century. We also point out the papers of the Italian Vincenzo Coronelli who in Venice, at the end of the seventeenth century, created the Atlante Veneto providing an almost nautical description of Italy, with particular attention to the ports and coastal areas of the peninsula.

In 1699 the Jesuit father Heinrich Scherer created the Atlas Novus, a very rare work, unknown to the main Italian and foreign libraries, rich with numerous papers describing the different states of Europe, marking the various shrines dedicated to the Virgin protector of the Nation, distributed in different territories. Italy is placed under the mantle of the Madonna of Loreto and all the Lauretan sanctuaries distributed throughout the country are reported.