Printing a Mediterranean World : : Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography / / Sean Roberts.

In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, inspired by the ancient Greek geography of Ptolemy. The poem, divided into seven books (one for each day of the week the autho...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©2012
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 25 halftones
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