Ptolemy is a sage of Alexandria in the Florenzen chronicle, whose portrait Dante shows the group, along with a hollow terrestrial globe in the Ptolemaic manner: a world where all the lands are together.
| Type | Character |
| Chronicle | Florenzen |
| Era | 1300 |
| Location | Referred; Alexandria |
| Spanish entry | Ptolomeo |
Role
Dante claims him as a precursor and a peer: Ptolemy was also a mage. He measured the geography and connections of the world, and predicted where paradise would be and where the entrances to hell lie, all of which he later wrote down.
His form reappears later as an object. In a room of the cursed castle there is a chest, and inside it a stone suspended in a kind of large orbitarium in the Ptolemaic style, like a cosmos in miniature. A later note anticipates the Soul of Ptolemy appearing above Florence.
See also
- Arsaces: the other sage of Alexandria.