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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| Språk: | engelska |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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Innehållsförteckning:
- 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.