Cantelli was hired as secretary by the
Marquis of Ferrara. Later he moved to Venice, becoming well known as a geographer and cartographer. From 1672 his maps were published by
Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi. Early works depicted the
Holy Land,
Persia and the
Ottoman Empire. In the 1680s came maps of
Lombardy,
Kingdom of Sicily,
Qing China,
Tartary,
Greece,
the Moluccas, India and parts of Europe. In 1685 Cantelli was made court cartographer to
Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena. He published a well-known 1689 map of
Serbia. His last works were a map of
Spain and one of north-western Italy with the
Dauphiné and
Provence. He died in 1695 at the age of 52. ==References==