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Guido of Pisa (died 9 July 1169) geographer from Pisa. In 1119 he edited and updated the Geographica a geographic encyclopedia first created in the eighth century by Anonymous of Ravenna. It followed in the tradition of earlier geographies such as Strabo’s Geographica Pomponius Mela’s De situ orbis Claudius Ptolemy’s Geographia and the Antonine Itinerary. Guido’s book included text as well as maps of Italy and the world as it was known to the Romans.

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