GASTALDI JACOPO/RUSCELLI GIROLAMO

Tavola nuova di Piemonte
Date: Venezia,1564
Piedmont
Cod 7104
Subject: Piedmont
300,00 €
Copper engraving, hand-painted, mm 190x263. Fascinating map depicting Italy according to the Gastaldine model. Taken from the Venetian edition of Ptolemy's "Geographia" edited by Ruscelli. The map is based on Gastaldi's 1548 map published in his edition of the 'Geographia' a few years earlier. Girolamo Ruscelli (1500-1566) was born in Viterbo and was an important writer and publisher. After studying in Padua, he spent his career between Rome and Naples, where he died. Ptolemy, the greatest cartographer of antiquity, published The Geography in 150 A.D.; in the Middle Ages it survived, thanks to Arab mediation, manuscripted in Greek and was then translated into Latin by Jacopo D'Angelo; from the beginning of the 15th century it became increasingly famous and in 1477 the first printed illustrated edition was published in Bologna, including only maps of the ancient world, immediately followed by other editions in 1478, -80, -82 that already presented some maps of the modern world. With the succession of editions, the number of modern maps increased, aware that the world was quite different from Ptolemy's, until Waldseemueller's famous edition of 1513, the first modern atlas, comprised of 20 new maps in addition to the ancient ones. In the course of the 16th century and beyond, numerous editions were published, including those edited by Ruscelli, whose modern maps are those of Gastaldi of 1548 in an enlarged version. Excellent specimen in beautiful colour

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