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

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

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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Main Author: Horodowich, Elizabeth, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Publishers and publishing > Italy > Venice > 16th century.
Cartography > Italy > Venice > History > 16th century.
Map printing > History > 16th century.
Public opinion > Italy > Venice > History > 16th century.
Venice (Italy) > Intellectual life.
America > Discovery and exploration.
America > Foreign public opinion, Italian > History > 16th century.
aVenice (Italy) > Civilization > To 1797.
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