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Questo crescente <strong>in</strong>teresse verso l’opera di Tolomeo sp<strong>in</strong>geIacopo Angeli da Scarperia, <strong>al</strong>lievo di Crisolora, a re<strong>al</strong>izzareuna versione <strong>in</strong> lat<strong>in</strong>o del codice del maestro, e poi FrancescoLapacc<strong>in</strong>i e Domenico Bon<strong>in</strong>segni ad elaborare delle copiedell’opera con la toponomastica <strong>in</strong>teramente tradotta <strong>in</strong>lat<strong>in</strong>o per rendere tot<strong>al</strong>mente accessibile la Geographia diTolomeo agli studiosi ed ai curiosi del tempo, affrancandocosì def<strong>in</strong>itivamente l’opera da quel millenario oblio etrasformandola <strong>in</strong> un vero e proprio best seller cartografico.La Geographia diviene negli anni a seguire un’operamonument<strong>al</strong>e, re<strong>al</strong>izzata con materi<strong>al</strong>i di vaglio, spessoimpreziosita con fatture di pregio e raff<strong>in</strong>ate decorazioni <strong>in</strong>oro, ed entra a far parte delle biblioteche dei più celebri epotenti personaggi del tempo, come P<strong>al</strong>la Strozzi, Lorenzo de’Medici, Federico da Montefeltro, Alfonso d’Aragona, Borsod’Este, Papa Gregorio XII, oltre che di numerosi studiosi ederuditi.La crescente diffusione della Geographia orig<strong>in</strong>a qu<strong>in</strong>di unaricca attività editori<strong>al</strong>e, che fa di Firenze il primo centrodi produzione di atlanti tolemaici di varie fatture e che siespande <strong>in</strong> <strong>al</strong>tre città d’Europa, conducendo <strong>al</strong>la nascitadi un florido mercato cartografico, anche a fogli sciolti,The fi rst one (chronologic<strong>al</strong>ly and for its relevance) it’s therenewed consideration of the Ptolemaic Geography <strong>in</strong> theWestern Countries. While such a theory had been neglectedfor <strong>al</strong>most a thousand years <strong>in</strong> Europe, through the Greek<strong>in</strong>heritance it had been enriched and cont<strong>in</strong>ued by the Islamicculture <strong>in</strong> the Middle East.Florence, 1397: this re-discovery beg<strong>in</strong>s with the com<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>totown of the Byzant<strong>in</strong>e Humanist Emmanuel Chrysoloras.He had been asked to teach Greek <strong>in</strong> the famous Studio bythe notorious man of letters and Chancellor of Florent<strong>in</strong>eRepublic, Coluccio S<strong>al</strong>utati.Together with Chrysoloras, <strong>al</strong>so a Greek copy of the Geographiaby Ptolemy with <strong>al</strong>l its maps arrived <strong>in</strong> It<strong>al</strong>y. It was used, withothers codes belong<strong>in</strong>g to Chrysoloras himself, for the teach<strong>in</strong>gactivity <strong>in</strong> the Studio.The code was immediately recognised as a cornerstone. Throughit, for the fi rst time, the students of the Studio could be able tosee “<strong>in</strong> pictura” <strong>al</strong>l the places <strong>al</strong>ways mentioned <strong>in</strong> the classics:nouns of towns, mounts, rivers, countries and peoples.The Florent<strong>in</strong>e Studio acted as a sort of “sound box” for awider audience <strong>in</strong>terested <strong>in</strong> know<strong>in</strong>g the world through thesight of Ptolemy. Quite soon, after the academic success, cameUna carta stampata del XV secolo raffigurante la descrizione di Tolomeo dell’Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, <strong>in</strong>cisore)A pr<strong>in</strong>ted map from the XV century depict<strong>in</strong>g Ptolemy's description of the Oecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumene55

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