Girolamo Ruscelli (1504-66)
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Ruscelli was editor of a revised and expanded edition of Ptolemy's Geographia which was issued in Venice several times between 1561 and the end of the century. The newly engraved maps were based, generally, on those compiled by Giacomo Gastaldi for the Venice edition of 1548.
1561 Geographia 1562, 1564,1574,1598-99 Re-issued.