TY  - GEN
T1  - The Venetian discovery of America : geographic imagination and print culture in the age of encounters
A1  - Horodowich, Elizabeth, 1970-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1050321285
AB  - Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. Venetian editors, mapmakers, translators, writers, and cosmographers represented the New World at times as a place that the city's mariners had discovered before the Spanish, a world linked to Marco Polo's China, or another version of Venice, especially in the case of Tenochtitlan. Elizabeth Horodowich explores these various and distinctive modes of imagining the New World, including Venetian rhetorics of 'firstness', similitude, othering, comparison, and simultaneity generated through forms of textual and visual pastiche that linked the wider world to the Venetian lagoon. These wide-ranging stances allowed Venetians to argue for their different but equivalent participation in the Age of Encounters. Whereas historians have traditionally focused on the Spanish conquest and colonization of the New World, and the Dutch and English mapping of it, they have ignored the wide circulation of Venetian Americana. Horodowich demonstrates how with their printed texts and maps, Venetian newsmongers embraced a fertile tension between the distant and the close. In doing so, they played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.
CN  - G80 .H67 2018eb
SN  - 9781108584982
SN  - 1108584985
SN  - 9781316596692
SN  - 1316596699
SN  - 9781316606841
SN  - 1316606848
SN  - 1107150876
SN  - 9781107150874
KW  - Discoveries in geography.
KW  - Venice (Italy) : History : 1508-1797.
KW  - Venice (Italy) : Civilization : To 1797.
KW  - Venice (Italy) : Relations : America.
KW  - America : Relations : Italy : Venice.
KW  - America : Discovery and exploration : Early works to 1800.
KW  - Découvertes géographiques.
KW  - Venise (Italie) : Histoire : 1508-1797.
KW  - Venise (Italie) : Civilisation : Jusqu'à 1797.
KW  - Amérique : Relations : Italie : Venise.
KW  - Amérique : Découverte et exploration : Ouvrages avant 1800.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Italy.
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Discoveries in geography
KW  - International relations
KW  - America
KW  - Italy : Venice
KW  - To 1797
KW  - Early works
KW  - History
ER  -