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The Venetian discovery of America
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ISBN: 9781107150874 1107150876 9781316596692 9781316606841 1108687245 1316596699 1108584985 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. Venetian editors, mapmakers, translators, writers, and cosmographers represented the New World at times as a place that the city's mariners had discovered before the Spanish, a world linked to Marco Polo's China, or another version of Venice, especially in the case of Tenochtitlan. Elizabeth Horodowich explores these various and distinctive modes of imagining the New World, including Venetian rhetorics of 'firstness', similitude, othering, comparison, and simultaneity generated through forms of textual and visual pastiche that linked the wider world to the Venetian lagoon. These wide-ranging stances allowed Venetians to argue for their different but equivalent participation in the Age of Encounters. Whereas historians have traditionally focused on the Spanish conquest and colonization of the New World, and the Dutch and English mapping of it, they have ignored the wide circulation of Venetian Americana. Horodowich demonstrates how with their printed texts and maps, Venetian newsmongers embraced a fertile tensi

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Geodesy. Cartography --- History of civilization --- anno 1500-1599 --- Venice --- America --- Discoveries in geography. --- Venice (Italy) --- Relations --- Discovery and exploration --- Italian. --- Foreign public opinion, Italian. --- Civilization. --- Intellectual life. --- Découvertes géographiques. --- Relations extérieures --- Découvertes géographiques italiennes --- Opinion publique italienne --- Vie intellectuelle --- Civilisation --- Discoveries in geography --- Découvertes --- --Géographie --- --Venise --- --Relation --- --Amérique --- --Opinion publique --- --Civilisation --- --Vie intellectuelle --- --Venice (Italy) --- Italian --- Foreign public opinion, Italian --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Géographie --- Relation --- Opinion publique --- Venise --- Amérique --- Venice (Italy) - Relations - America --- America - Discovery and exploration - Italian --- America - Foreign public opinion, Italian --- Venice (Italy) - Civilization --- Venice (Italy) - Intellectual life --- Publishers and publishing --- Cartography --- Map printing --- Public opinion --- History --- aVenice (Italy) --- Discovery and exploration. --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Maps --- Maps, Printing of --- Printing --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Book publishing --- Books --- Book industries and trade --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Reproduction --- Publishing --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- Bneci (Italy) --- Mleci (Italy) --- Mleti (Italy) --- Venecia (Italy) --- Venezia (Italy) --- Venedig (Italy) --- Venetik (Italy) --- Venet︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Velence (Italy) --- Benetia (Italy) --- Venetia (Italy) --- Wenecja (Italy) --- Venise (Italy) --- Fenice (Italy) --- Benetke (Italy) --- Vinegia (Italy) --- Burano (Italy) --- Murano (Italy) --- Venice (Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom) --- Découvertes géographiques. --- Relations extérieures --- Découvertes géographiques italiennes

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