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Last Name Bisticci

Given Name Verspiano de

alt. Names V. d. B.;

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Year born 1421 in Bisticci, now Italy

Year died 1498

Place of death Antella

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Country of Activity Italy

Worked for Ptolemaeus: Cosmographia (Latin translation by Jacopo di Scaperia) (1489 ?, Vat. lat 5699) ;

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Collaborators copist Ugo Comminelli de Mézières ;

Techniques 55 maps and topographical views of major cities

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Published sources Vite di uomini illustri del secolo XV; Lebensbeschreibungen berühmter Männer des Quattrocento ; Vite di portoghesi illustri. Pompeo Arditi, Viaggio all'isola di Madera e alle Azzorre (1567) ; Vespasiano da Bisticci" in Dizionario della Letteratura Italiana, a cura di E. Bonora, Rizzoli (Milano 1977) ; Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Stuttgart & Zurich 1986: 192-3 & 200-203) ;

other Italian bookseller, stationer, illustrator & writer.

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