Tripoli Città di Barbaria (ca. 1560): The History of a Fake News Map

Writing in the Rivista Marittima in 1913, military historian Camillo Manfroni (1863–1935), professor of history at the Naval Academy of Livorno and later at the universities of Genoa, Padua and Rome, and senator of the Kingdom of Italy from 1929 to 1935, was the first person to refer to the destruction, by the Venetian bailo in Constantinople, Girolamo Ferro, of a singular sixteenth-century drawing minutely illustrated with the events and protagonists of a “siege and capture” of Tripoli that never actually happened. This articles further explores uses and misuses of this "fake news map".