VOLCIC, Vicko Dimitrije (Vicentius Demetrius Voltius Raguseus), cartographer (Dubrovnik, 1563 - Rome, 1607). As a young man, he left Dubrovnik. It is assumed that he was either a student or a collaborator of Sicilian cartographer Giovanni Oliva in whose workshop he gained cartographic skills. He first lived in Naples from 1592 to 1593. He founded a master workshop named "Livornian Nautical and Cartographic School" in Livorno in 1592. The school was active to 1688. From 1596 to 1601 he lived in Livorno. In 1601 he moved to Naples. During the period between 1592 and 1607 he crafted several very valuable handwritten portolans and atlases which can now be seen in archives and libraries in Madrid, Rome, Florence, Bologna, Paris, Stockholm, Chicago and Cambridge. His portolans were signed: Vicentius Demetrei Volcius Rachuseus. While the other cartographers of his time mostly engraved their maps on copper and then reproduced them on paper, he made them with a brush on a parchment. All his maps are handwritten, decorated with colours and figures, which were common for portolans. His cartographic works have been displayed in 1881 at the third International Geographical Congress in Venice. Volcic followed the portolan creators of famous schools of Mallorca, Genova and Venice. In his Periplus A. E Nordenskiöld noticed that the descriptions of the Mediterranean coast and the Black Sea on the portolans from 14th to 16th century and on Volcic's portolans from the second half of the 16th century were drawn in an unchanged way and configuration. Nordenskiöld specifically stresses that the names of harbors, of which harbors of special purpose are written with red color, were unchangedly written through three centuries of portolan making, from Petrus Vesconte's portolan from 1311 to Volcic's portolan from 1607. According to Novak (2001), up until now 20 Volcic's portolans are known, and are kept in the most important libraries of the world.

The Adriatic on Volcic's portolan