RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO: MAP OF SLAVONIA
Inventory number 94
Author: RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO
Original title: Tavola nuova de Schiavonia
Publishing year: 1598
Place of publishing and publisher: Venezia
Format: 17,8 x 24,3 cm
Technique: Copper engraving
One of the collaborators on the last Ptolemy's Geography issue edited by Girolamo Ruscelli was also Giuseppe Rosaccio. This issue was published in Venice in 1599 at Melchior Sessa printing house. In it reappeared again Ruscelli's "New map of Slavonia" published in the first edition of 1561 and in all subsequent Ruscelli's editions, including this one (ref. catalogue No. 87).
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.
