Francesco Berlinghieri
Back to people overviewBerlinghieri was a Florentine humanist. Throughout his career, he benefitted from the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and the Ottoman Sultan, Bayzid II.
In 1842, he become the first to translate Ptolemy's ‘Geographia’ into a modern language (contemporary Italian). In addition to the 27 original maps by Ptolemy, the book contained four additional maps of France, Italy, Spain, and Palestine, derived from fifteenth century manuscripts. The maps were engraved by Francesco Rosselli and made use of Marinus of Tyre’s equirectangular projection. The same year, Berlinghieri published a Ptolemaic world map named: ‘Caelestem Hic Terram Inspicias Terrestre Que Caleum’, which was dedicated to Federico de Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino.
