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Europae Tabula V is a fine example of Girolamo Ruscelli's work, showcasing the Ptolemaic geography of the Balkans, Adriatic Sea, and Italy. Published in Venice in 1561, the map provides intricate details of these regions.
The map encompasses the Balkans and the entirety of Italy, albeit with much less detail.
The Balkans and surrounding regions are further divided into areas such as Rhaetia, Vindelicia, Noricum, Pannonia Superior, Illyria, Liburnia, Pannonia Inferior, Iazyges Metanastae, Dalmatia, and more. Each of these represents historical and geographic regions of Central and Southeast Europe, showcasing the divisions and territories as understood in the 2nd century when Claudius Ptolemy was working.
Girolamo Ruscelli was an Italian polymath, humanist, and cartographer who frequently updated and revised the geographical knowledge of his time, following the tradition of Claudius Ptolemy, the Greco-Roman scholar of Alexandria whose work profoundly influenced the understanding of geography in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
This map is a testament to the detailed work of Ruscelli, who integrated the classical geographical traditions of Ptolemy with the growing knowledge of the world during the Age of Discovery, thereby contributing to the evolving view of Europe and its surroundings in the 16th century.
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.
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