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
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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
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Venetian discovery of America.
International Standard Book Number
9781107150874
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Civilization.
Discoveries in geography.
HISTORY-- Europe-- Italy.
International relations.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
America, Discovery and exploration, Early works to 1800.