A later, and apparently unrecorded, state of Forlani's second world map, first published in 1562, here dated 1676, and published by Stefano Mozzi Scolari (1598-1650), the clever and industrious printer who established his workshop at Allinsegna delle Tre Virtu a S. Zulian, in Venice. Scolari developed a reputation for producing extremely high-quality derivatives of important maps and prints.

Again, based on Giacomo Gastaldi's world map of 1546, which was "an influential prototype. It was reduced and redrawn for the Ptolemy-Gastaldi atlas of 1548, adapted in woodcut form by Pagano in 1550 and was the source for De Jode's first world map of 1555. Throughout the 1560s a later generation of Italian engravers and publishers - Forlani, Camocio and Bertelli - produced and number of confusingly similar derivatives” (Shirley 85).

This world map is larger than Forlani’s first, and therefore place names are more legible, and some of the geographical detail is amended: “omitting spurious mountain ranges and adding others, such as the Andes, which have been more authoritatively reported. In North America, Forlani has inserted information derived from Ramusio’s accounts of Cartier’s expeditions to Canada, including a large lake to the south of Ochelay, Montreal. The partial southern continent, as shown on Gastaldi’s 1546 prototype, remains” (Shirley).

The map is a reworking of Forlani’s copperplate, is decorated with Venetian galleys, ships and sea monsters, but the previously decorative four corners have been replaced with dedicatory and descriptive text. The map still contains Forlani’s imprint in the top right, and lower left corners, but the date has been altered and Scolari’s imprint has been engraved below the neatline, lower right.

Paolo Forlani (fl1560-1574) is unusual within the Laferi school because he was one of the few to combine the talent of mapmaking and engraving, while also infrequently acting as a publisher and mapseller. He was much-sought after as an engraver and mapmaker, particularly as he was adept at the difficult art of engraving lettering. Consequently, he was employed by four of the leading publishers of the period to prepare maps for them -Giovanni Francesco Camocio, Ferando Bertelli and Bolgnini Zaltieri from Venice, and Claudio Duchetti from Rome.

There is precious little documentary evidence for Forlani’s activities. For example, only one of his maps was the subject of an application for a privilege. As a result, much that is known about his activities has been reconstructed from the maps with which he was associated. However, he did not sign all the maps he engraved.

Bifolco records no institutional examples of the present state.