GIROLAMO GIUSEPPE (1555-1611)  , the son of Paolo, was born at Venice in 1555• He entered the public service in 1577, and was employed in connexion with various foreign missions . In 16o1 he published at Lyons the French text of Villehardouin; and, besides an Italian translation of this old historian (who seems thus to have furnished occupation for three generations of Ramusios), he left behind him a Storia o Cronaca di Casa Ramusia, a folio MS still in St Mark's Library . He died at Padua in 1611, and his posterity did nothing to continue the reputation of the family, official or literary . Besides the circumstances to be gathered from the Navigation regarding the Ramusio family, see the Iscrizioni Venete of Emanuele Cigogna . There is also in the British Museum Monografia letta it 14 Marzo 1883 ... by Guglielmo Carradori (Rimini, 1883); but hardly anything has been found in this except the inscription quoted at the beginning of this article . (H .