The Venetian Discovery of America: Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in the Age of Encounters

ISBN-13: 9781107150874 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 338 str.

Elizabeth Horodowich

Opis

Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

Recenzje

'[a] richly illustrated and fascinating and convincing work in its argument.' Felicitas Schmieder, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken

Spis treści

1. Introduction: printing the new world in early modern Venice; 2. Compiled geographies: the Venetian travelogue and the Americas; 3. Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Venetian new world; 4. The Venetian mapping of the Americas; 5. Venetians in America: Nicolo Zen and the virtual exploration of the New World; 6. Venice as Tenochtitlan: the correspondence of the old world and the new; Conclusion.