The Venetian discovery of America : geographic imagination and print culture in the age of encounters /

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 c...

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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Horodowich, Elizabeth, 1970- (Údar)
Formáid: Licensed eBooks
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Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Rochtain ar líne:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1843282
Clár na nÁbhar:
  • Introduction: printing the New World in early modern Venice
  • Compiled geographies: the Venetian travelogue and the Americas
  • Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Venetian New World
  • The Venetian mapping of the Americas
  • Venetians in America: Nicolò zen and the virtual exploration of the New World
  • Venice as Tenochtitlan: the correspondence of the old world and the new
  • Conclusion.