Francesco Berlinghieri

It was printed in 1482 with copper engraved maps by the German printer Nicolaus Laurentii, also known as Niccolò Tedesco, under the title Septe Giornate della Geographia di Francesco Berlinghieri meaning "The Seven Days of Geography".

Berlinghieri was also among the first to supplement the traditional maps contained in the Geographia with updated maps of France, Italy, Spain, British Isles and the Holy Land, based on the work of Nicolaus Germanus.² He painstakingly identified Ptolemy's place names with contemporary toponyms and, aside from Ptolemy, also sourced information from classical geographers Strabo and Diodorus of Sicily.

Additionally, manuscript copies of the book were dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici and Federigo da Montefeltro and individual copies of the printed edition were dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan, at that time Bayezid II and his half-brother Cem Sultan.³ ¹ Assunto Mori, “Un geografo del Rinascimento (Francesco di Niccolò Berlinghieri),” Archivio storico italiano, vol.

² R.A. Skelton, "Geographia: Florence, 1482" (Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1964), introduction to the facsimile edition.

See also Angela Dillon Bussi, “Aspetti della miniature ai tempi di Lorenzo il Magnifico,” in Anna Lenzuni ed., All’ombra del lauro.