Antonio Floriano was granted a privilege by the Venetian Senate to prepare and publish a world map in January 1555. The map appears in two hemispheres each cut into thirty-six gores, and it is copied evidently from Gerard Mercator’s 1538 double cordiform (heart-shaped) map. The name “America” appears in both the northern and southern portions of the Western Hemisphere and America is shown as separate from the Asian continent.