Paolo Petrini (c. 1670 - 1722) was an Italian bookseller, engraver, and publisher active in Naples at the turn of the 18th century. He was not primarily a cartographer, but rather a publisher and engraver, and as such his maps are cartographically derivative of Nicolas (1600 - 1667), Guillaume Sanson (1633 - 1703), Nicolas De Fer (1646 - 1720), and Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola (1643 - 1695). He issued allegorical prints (many made after Painter Luca Giordano), a handful of wall maps, and his supremely rare 1700 atlas, Atlante Partenopeo. At some point in his career in or after 1700, Petrini received an Privilege, a kind of early copyright, likely from Philip V of Spain, who was the King of Naples. After his death in 1722, the firm was taken over by his son, Michele Angelo Petrini, who reissued some of his works. Little else is known of Petrini, whose life is as obscure as his works are rare.
