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Giovanni Battista Ramusio

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53: 31: 106:. Ramusio would spend the rest of his career in Venetian service. He was keenly interested in geography, and his position ensured that he would receive news of all the latest discoveries from explorers around Europe as they were sent back to Venice. A learned man, fluent in several languages, he began to compile these documents and translated them into 168:
The first volume was published in 1550, quickly followed by the third volume in 1556. Publication of the second volume was delayed because the manuscript had been destroyed in a fire before being sent to the printer, and was finally published in 1559, two years after its compiler's death.
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was translated into several languages and reprinted a number of times, indicating how popular such books were becoming on the Continent. It paved the way for a slew of other such works, including those of
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Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries: Annotated Lists and Guides
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of the Venetian city-state. In 1505 young Giovanni took a position as secretary to Aloisio Mocenigo, of the patrician
511: 270: 147: 52: 496: 139: 506: 471: 302: 165:' work on the Indies, which had come into his hands, though he did not know the name of its author. 222: 59:("General Map of the Newly Discovered Part of the World"), 1556 map created by Ramusio and Gastaldi 328: 290:(in English and Latin). United Kingdom: Catholic University of America Press. pp. 80, 99. 368: 491: 486: 8: 131: 218: 135: 91: 455: 446: 384:
The 'Suma Oriental' of Tomé Pires: An Account of the East, from the Red Sea to China,
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Italian academies and their networks, 1525-1700: From local to global
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Hankins, James; Kaster, Robert A.; Brown, Virginia, eds. (2011).
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contains the first reference in European literature to
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A bibliographical sketch of the Aldine Press at Venice
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Though he himself traveled little, Ramusio published
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Universale della Parte del Mondo Novamente Ritrovata
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Giambattista Ramusio

New France
Giacomo Gastaldi

[dʒoˈvannibatˈtistaraˈmuːzjo]
geographer
travel writer
Treviso
Republic of Venice
magistrate
Mocenigo family
France
Italian
Padua
Marco Polo
NiccolĂČ Da Conti
Magellan
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
Giosafat Barbaro
Descrittione dell’ Africa
China
tea
Tomé Pires
Richard Hakluyt
Ramusio family
doges
Alvise I Mocenigo
Alvise II Mocenigo
Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo

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