Printing a Mediterranean world : Florence, Constantinople, and the renaissance of geography /
In 1482 Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over 100 folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse interleaved with lavishly engraved maps. Roberts demonstrates that the Geographia represents the moment of transition between printing and manuscript culture, while forming a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico Mapa |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction: Gifts From Afar
- 1 Ptolemy in Transit
- 2 The Rebirth of Geography
- 3 Making Books, Forging Communities
- 4 Printing Tolerance and Intolerance
- Conclusion: Resurrection and Necromancy
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.