Venetian Discovery of America

Venetian Discovery of America

Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in the Age of Encounters

Horodowich, Elizabeth

Cambridge University Press

08/2021

343

Mole

Inglês

9781316606841

15 a 20 dias

598

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.