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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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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Table of Contents:
- 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