Tabula tertia de Europa. Francesco Berlinghieri (1440-1501) attributed to Francesco Roselli (1445-before 1513). from Geographia. Engraved map. Florence: N. Laurentii, Alamanus, before 1482-early sixteenth century. 16 1/4 x 16 inches sheet. An extremely attractive map of France and Belgium from THE THIRD PRINTED ATLAS AND FIRST IN THE ITALIAN VERNACULAR, "Geographia" by Berlinghieri in 1482. Although not published until mid-1482, the maps in Berlinghieri's 'Geographia', were perhaps printed as early as 1479, with remaindered sheets reissued at the beginning of the 16th century. This map of France and Belgium is significant for being one of the new "modern maps" which were published for the first time as copper engravings, just before they were published as woodcuts by Lienhart Holl in his edition of Ptolemy's "Cosmographia" of 1482. Berlinghieri was born into an established political Florentine family, and he himself served in a variety of governmental offices, including as Prior of the Signoria and Conservator of Laws. In 1479 he was appointed Florentine ambassador at the Gonzaga court in Mantua. He later found employment in Florence in the court of Lorenzo de' Medici and took part in the Platonic Academy, founded by Marsilio Ficino. Berlinghieri provided financial support to Ficino during the latter's translation of Plato's works into Latin. Berlinghieri began work on his "Geographia" in 1464, which was originally dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II. However, when the sultan died in 1481, Berlinghieri dedicated it instead to Federico da Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino, who also had the misfortune to die before the final edition was printed. Roselli, to whom the engraving of this map is attributed, is best known as an Italian miniature painter, as well as an engraver of important maps, including the celebrated Martellus (1492) and Contarini (1508) world maps. Campbell 152; Hain 2825.