Antique map of Northern Regions by Ruscelli G. 1564
Girolamo Ruscelli (1504 (1518?) -1566)
Girolamo Ruscelli was an Italian mathematician and cartographer who worked in Venice in the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist who wrote pseudonymously as Alessio Piemontese.
He published a translation of the Geografia of Ptolemy, printed in Venice by Vincenzo Valgrisi in 1561. It was a quarto edition with Ptolemaic and modern maps. The engravers may have been the brothers Giulio and Livio Sanuto. Among the 69 copperplate maps were 40 based on maps by Giacomo Gastaldi. The maps were re-issued in 1562, 1564, 1574 and 1598.
Septenirionalium Partium Nova Tabula
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Category: Antique maps > Oceans
Copper engraving
Size: 18 x 24cm (7 x 10 inches)
Verso text: Italian
Condition: Excellent.
References: Ginsberg (Scandinavia), 18.
From: La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino.
Based on the so called Zeno map with the mythical island Frislandt.
Girolamo Ruscelli published a new edition of Ptolemy's Geography in Italian in 1561. It included larger versions of all the maps in Gastaldi's 1548 Geography plus four new ones, including a derivation of the Zeno map that had first appeared only three years before.
Ruscelli's map of Scandinavia, though clearly based on Gastaldi, shows less detail in Norway and elsewhere. Notwithstanding its slightly greater area, it is simpler, with fewer decorative elements.
Girolamo Ruscelli (1504 (1518?) -1566)
Girolamo Ruscelli was an Italian mathematician and cartographer who worked in Venice in the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist who wrote pseudonymously as Alessio Piemontese.
He published a translation of the Geografia of Ptolemy, printed in Venice by Vincenzo Valgrisi in 1561. It was a quarto edition with Ptolemaic and modern maps. The engravers may have been the brothers Giulio and Livio Sanuto. Among the 69 copperplate maps were 40 based on maps by Giacomo Gastaldi. The maps were re-issued in 1562, 1564, 1574 and 1598.