Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; One Introduction: Printing the New World in Early Modern Venice; Two Compiled Geographies: The Venetian Travelogue and the Americas; The New World in Venetian Printed Texts: An Overview; The Americas in Venetian Prefaces; The First Printed Venetian Travel Compendia: The Libretto de tutta la navigatione (1504) and the Paesi novamente retrovati (1507); The Manuscript Compendia of Alessandro Zorzi: New World Marginalia; Appendix: Venetian Americana
The Venetian Cartographic Legacy: Northern Europe and the AtlasFive Venetians in America: Nicolò Zen and the Virtual Exploration of the New World; The Zen Family in Venice; Credibility in the Early Modern Travelogue; The Creation of a Venetian America: Pastiche; The Creation of a Venetian America: Substitution; Nicolò Zen's Venetian New World; Ferdinand Colombus's Historie: A Coda; Six Venice as Tenochtitlan: The Correspondence of the Old World and the New; Venice and Tenochtitlan in Venetian Isolarii; Venetian Costume Books and the New World; The Venetian New World: Marvel and Correspondence
Three Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Venetian New WorldRamusio's Summario (1534); Ramusio's Navigazioni e viaggi (1550-1559); Ramusio, Christopher Columbus, and Marco Polo; Venice and the Black Legend; The Travel Compendium in Venice: The Movement of Information in a Globalizing Genre; The Legacy of Ramusio's New World; Four The Venetian Mapping of the Americas; Venetian Maps, an Overview: Worldliness, Authorship, and the Transmission of Iberian Knowledge; Maps for Armchair Travel: The Wealth, Exoticism, and Marvels of the New World; Marco Polo in the New World: America as Asia; Venice and Spain
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Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.
Venetian discovery of America.
9781107150874
Civilization.
Discoveries in geography.
HISTORY-- Europe-- Italy.
International relations.
America, Discovery and exploration, Early works to 1800.