RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO: 5TH MAP OF EUROPE
Inventory number 70
Author: RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO
Original title: Europae Tabula V/ Claudius Ptoleameus
Publishing year: 1574
Place of publishing and publisher: Venezia
Format: 17,5 x 24,5 cm
Technique: Copper engraving
This map is a re-print issue of so-called Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geography (Venice, 1561) published in Venice 1574 at Giordano Ziletti. It is a re-print of Ptolomy's 5th map of Europe included in all of the editions of his Geography (ref. catalogue numbers 97, 105 and 120). The text with explanations about geographical position and province boundaries is shown on the map below the cartographic image.
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.
