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GIROLAMO GIUSEPPE (1555-1611)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 884 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GIROLAMO GIUSEPPE (1555-1611)  , the son of See also:Paolo, was See also:born at See also:Venice in 1555• He entered the public service in 1577, and was employed in connexion with various See also:foreign See also:missions . In 16o1 he published at See also:Lyons the See also:French See also:text of See also:Villehardouin; and, besides an See also:Italian See also:translation of this old historian (who seems thus to have furnished occupation for three generations of Ramusios), he See also:left behind him a Storia o Cronaca di Casa Ramusia, a See also:folio MS still in St See also:Mark's Library . He died at See also:Padua in 1611, and his posterity did nothing to continue the reputation of the See also:family, See also:official or See also:literary . Besides the circumstances to be gathered from the See also:Navigation regarding the See also:Ramusio family, see the Iscrizioni Venete of Emanuele Cigogna . There is also in the See also:British Museum Monografia letta it 14 Marzo 1883 ... by Guglielmo Carradori (See also:Rimini, 1883); but hardly anything has been found in this except the inscription quoted at the beginning of this See also:article . (H .

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