RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO: MAP OF SLAVONIA

Inventory number 87

Original title: Tavola Nuova de Schiavonia

Publishing year: 1574

Place of publishing and publisher: Venezia

Format: 17,8 x 24,3 cm

Technique: Copper engraving

This map represents a re-print issue of Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geography (Venice, 1561) published in Venice in 1574 at Giordano Ziletti printing house. Ruscelli (approx. 1504-1566) was a Roman philologist that edited several issues of Ptolemy's Geograpy (1561, 1562, 1564, 1574, and 1598/99). Ruscelli's new map of Slavonia is in reality a re-print of Gestaldi's map of Dalmatia (ref. catalogue No. 21). The only change made by Ruscelli, consists in re-design of the map's title. In the lower left corner there is a blazon in a rollwerk cartouche with a drawn of a sea horse with shells. The title is shown above the upper margin edge.

RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO

RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO (approx. 1504 or 1518-1566), a philologist and editor of literary (Decameron, etc.) but also cartographic works from Venice. He later moved to Rome. He was born in Viterbo in a family of lower nobility. As an accomplished philologist, he worked on revisions and translations of Ptolemy’s Geographia in various editions (1561, 1562, 1564, 1574 and 1598/99.). He collaborated with the printery Sessa and with Giuseppe Rosaccio.