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839080
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Horodowich, Elizabeth,1970-
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The Venetian discovery of America : : geographic imagination and print culture in the age of encounters /\ Elizabeth Horodowich.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 2018.
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, ©2018
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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1108584985
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: 1316596699
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: 1316606848
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: 9781108584982
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: 9781316596692
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: 9781316606841
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1107150876
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9781107150874
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.
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Civilization.
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Discoveries in geography.
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HISTORY-- Europe-- Italy.
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International relations.
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America, Discovery and exploration, Early works to 1800.
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America, Relations, Italy, Venice.
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Venice (Italy), Civilization, To 1797.
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Venice (Italy), History, 1508-1797.
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Venice (Italy), Relations, America.
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America.
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Italy, Venice.
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| Dewey Classification
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945.3107
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DG678.235
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