Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Giovanni Battista Ramusio

Venetian geographer and writer

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1485

Place of Birth: Treviso, Veneto, Italy

Date of Death: 10-Jul-1557

Profession: writer, diplomat, historian, geographer, cartographer

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Giovanni Battista Ramusio (Italian pronunciation: [d?o'vanni bat'tista ra'mu?zjo]; July 20, 1485 – July 10, 1557) was an Italian geographer and travel writer. Born in Treviso, Italy, at that time in the Republic of Venice, Ramusio was the son of Paolo Ramusio, a magistrate of the Venetian city-state.
In 1505 young Giovanni took a position as secretary to Alvise Mocenigo, then serving as the Republic's ambassador to France; he would spend the rest of his career in Venetian service, and died in Padua.
He was keenly interested in geography, and his position ensured that he would receive news of all the latest discoveries from explorers around Europe as they were sent back to Venice.
A learned man, fluent in several languages, he began to compile these documents and translated them into Italian, then the most widely understood of the European languages.