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Stock# 67181

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Girolamo Ruscelli

Title

Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova

Publication Place / Date

Venice / 1598

Image Dimensions

10 x 7 inches

Color

Hand Colored

Condition

Stock# 67181

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Description

This antique map of New Spain is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's map of 1548, except that the Yucatan is no longer shown as an island. It is the second earliest obtainable map of the Southern half of the US.

The Mississippi River appears as the R. de Spiritu Santu. California is shown as a peninsula. The R. Tontonteanc is either the Gila or the Colorado River. Florida and Cuba are named. The placenames reflect the explorations of Pineda, Cabeza de Vaca, and Moscosso.

This is perhaps the most influential map of the southwest during the 16th Century. The second edition of this map, with the added sailing ship. Modern full wash coloring. Italian text on verso.

Reference

Burden 31; Martin & Martin, plate 3.

Girolamo Ruscelli Biography

Girolamo Ruscelli (1500-1566) was a cartographer, humanist, and scholar from Tuscany. Ruscelli was a prominent writer and editor in his time, writing about a wide variety of topics including the works of Giovanni Boccaccio and Francesco Petrarch, Italian language, Italian poetry, medicine, alchemy, and militia. One of his most notable works was a translation of Ptolemy’s Geographia which was published posthumously.

There is limited information available about Ruscelli’s life. He was born in the Tuscan city of Viterbo to a family of modest means. He was educated at the University of Padua and moved between Rome and Naples until 1548, when he moved to Naples to work in a publishing house as a writer and proofreader. He remained in the city until his death in 1566.