Venetian Discovery of America - Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in the Age of Encounters

Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Elizabeth Horodowich is Professor of History at New Mexico State University. She is the author of Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice (Cambridge, 2008), and A Brief History of Venice (2009), and is the recipient of awards and fellowships from a variety of institutions, including Harvard University's Villa I Tatti, the American Historical Association, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Summary

As the print capital of early modern Europe, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Horodowich, Elizabeth (New Mexico State University Horodowich, Elizabeth (New Mexico State University) Horodowich, HORODOWICH ELIZABET
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781107150874
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15087-4
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; History, European History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), ART / History / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, ART / European, Italy, General & world history, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Renaissance art, General and world history, Renaissance style, History of the Americas, The Americas, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600