Francesco Berlinghieri

Illuminated letter in an edition of his Geographia (Accademia della Crusca library)
A map of Greece in Geographia

Francesco Berlinghieri (1440–1501) was an Italian scholar and humanist who lived during the fifteenth century. He promoted the value of classical Greek learning and was one of the first to print a text based on Ptolemy's Geographica. Berlinghieri studied poetry under the tutelage of Cristoforo Landino.