The Venetian Discovery of America
Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in the Age of Encounters
- Author: Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University
- Date Published: August 2021
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316606841
Paperback
Other available formats:
Hardback, eBook
Looking for an inspection copy?
This title is not currently available on inspection
-
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 city's mariners had discovered before the Spanish, a world linked to Marco Polo's China, or another version of Venice, especially in the case of Tenochtitlan. Elizabeth Horodowich explores these various and distinctive modes of imagining the New World, including Venetian rhetorics of 'firstness', similitude, othering, comparison, and simultaneity generated through forms of textual and visual pastiche that linked the wider world to the Venetian lagoon. These wide-ranging stances allowed Venetians to argue for their different but equivalent participation in the Age of Encounters. Whereas historians have traditionally focused on the Spanish conquest and colonization of the New World, and the Dutch and English mapping of it, they have ignored the wide circulation of Venetian Americana. 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.
Read more- Proposes a new understanding of the Renaissance by considering Italian history in a global context
- Makes significant new arguments about the Mediterranean world
- Brings discussions from Italian scholarship into an Anglophone arena
Reviews & endorsements
'[a] richly illustrated and fascinating and convincing work in its argument.' Felicitas Schmieder, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken
See more reviews'As well as illuminating the cultural and intellectual history of the Serenissima at this time, the book also constitutes a significant new contribution to the study of early modern global history and mobility by shedding light on the flow of ideas, texts, and images that circulated between and around Europe and the Americas through a variety of different media.' Rosa Salzberg, Journal of Modern History
Customer reviews
Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review
Review was not posted due to profanity
×Product details
- Date Published: August 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316606841
- length: 343 pages
- dimensions: 245 x 176 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.657kg
- contains: 74 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table 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.
Sorry, this resource is locked
Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email lecturers@cambridge.org
Register Sign in» Proceed
You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.
Continue ×Are you sure you want to delete your account?
This cannot be undone.
Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.
If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.
×