In the history of exploration, Giovanni Battista Ramusio is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Giovanni Battista Ramusio as Venetian geographer and writer (1485-1557).
Giovanni Battista Ramusio was born at Treviso in 1485. His recorded nationality is Republic of Venice.
The Age of Discovery was driven by Iberian crowns, the caravel and the search for a sea route to the spice trade - and it opened the Atlantic world with consequences its sailors never intended.
He is recorded as writer, diplomat and geographer.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Giovanni Battista Ramusio died in 1557, aged 72. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as writer, diplomat and geographer
