Alexius Pedemontanus

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Girolamo Ruscelli (Viterbo 1500 — Venice 1566), using the pseudonym Alessio Piemontese and better known under his latinized name of Alexius Pedemontanus, was an 14th century Italian physician, alchemist and cartographer. His books were published and translated in his time in Latin, German and French and Welsh.

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  • Opera nuova nella quale si contengono tre utilissimi ricettari, 1538
  • De secretis libri sex mira quadam rerum varietate referti ex Italico in Latinum sermonem nunc primum translati..., Venice, 1550
  • Mirabilis magnus naturae, D. O. M. A. TRACTATUS II. Opificia et artificia, sive artes Mechanicas et manuarias ad Remp. necessarias, utiles et voluptarias complectitur. Commonly known under the German name of Kunstbuch.
  • Translation of Ptolemy's Geography.
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