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    Girolamo Ruscelli (1518–1566) was an Italian mathematician and cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist,...
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  • Piemontese was a pseudonym of Girolamo Ruscelli (Viterbo 1500 — Venice 1566), humanist and cartographer. In a later work, Ruscelli reported that the Secreti...
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    Paolo Avogadro, count Gianfrancesco Gambara, and the renowned writer Girolamo Ruscelli, also an expert in secret writing, who urged him to reprint a reciprocal...
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    l'Espositione del Signor Rinaldo Corso, nuovamente mandate in luce da Girolamo Ruscelli (in Italian), Venice: Giovan Battista et Melchior Sessa Fratelli,...
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    examples include the maps of Sebastian Münster, Abraham Ortelius, and Girolamo Ruscelli. After the 17th century, maps of Cornwall tended to no longer make...
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    gold, medicine, and cosmetics. However, it is rumoured that a man, Girolamo Ruscelli, was the real author and only used a female voice to attract female...
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    1561 map of West Africa by Girolamo Ruscelli, from Italian translation of Ptolemy's Atlas "La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo alessandrino, Nuovamente tradotta...
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    Vite do' Duchi di Milano by Scipione Barbuo, in 1574. The maps in Girolamo Ruscelli's translation of the Geographia of Ptolemy, 1574, and the maps in Porcacchi's...
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    on the use of artillery, Niccolò Tartaglia. The term was used by Girolamo Ruscelli (died 1566) in his Precepts of Modern Militia published posthumously...
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  • - Girolamo Ruscelli - Venetia - Melchior Sessa 1569. Contains 10 works on pages 194-197. 'I Fiori delle Rime de Poeti Illustri' - Girolamo Ruscelli -...
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  • the Palazzo Manfrone. Among its members was Lodovico Domenichi and Girolamo Ruscelli. He was generally indigent during his life, mainly supporting himself...
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  • Bulgarini and Ippolito Agostino, who engage with other theorists such as Girolamo Ruscelli and Paolo Giovio. Bargagli's translation of George Buchanan's spiritual...
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    contract with the heir to the manuscript of a script by the late scholar Girolamo Ruscelli about Emblems, Le imprese illustri . He took over the editing, and...
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    tuberculosis, like her mother, in 1568. Her sonnets were also appreciated by Girolamo Ruscelli who published two sonnets in his Rime di diversi eccellenti autori...
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    prominent figure in Italy's political and religious life. The poet Girolamo Ruscelli paid tribute to her in an anthology with work from many contemporary...
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  • Girolamo Ruscelli's 1561 map of New Spain, Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova...
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    published in 1556 by Vincenzo Valgrisi, with the collaboration of Girolamo Ruscelli. He was forced to hurriedly abandon the city on account of the discovery...
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  • donna Giovanna d'Aragona, both anthologies collected and edited by Girolamo Ruscelli and published in Venice in 1553 and 1555, respectively. Devorà Ascarelli...
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    include the maps of Sebastian Munster (1515), Abraham Ortelius, and Girolamo Ruscelli. Maps that depict Cornwall as a county of the Kingdom of England and...
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    Ruscelleide (Città di Castello, Lapi, 1898), a bitter satire against Girolamo Ruscelli, and the brief autobiographical notes Ricordi intorno alla sua vita...
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  • Girolamo Ruscelli's 1561 map of New Spain, Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova. Image from the UTA Libraries Special Collections...
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    Temple of the Divine Lady Giovanna d’Aragona”. One year later, editor Girolamo Ruscelli published a tribute to Maria d’Aragona under the title “A lecture...
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    particularly with the poets gathered around the court of Naples. When Girolamo Ruscelli, in 1551, collected poetic texts for an anthology in honour of Giovanna...
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    civil architect Girolamo Ruscelli (architect) (1538-1604) civil architect Valentino Martelli (1540-1600) sculptor and civil architect Girolamo Danti (1547-1580)...
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  • Venice in 1528. 2 1562 Isola Cuba Nova Girolamo Ruscelli Fragment showing Jamaica from an early map of Cuba in Ruscelli's Atlas, probably the 1562 edition,...
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    Cloppenburgh, Amsterdam [7] Y. de la Galera 1599 Africa Nuova tavola, Ruscelli, Girolamo; Rosaccio, Giuseppe; Appresso gli heredi di Melchior Sessa; Venecia...
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