The Venetian Discovery of America: Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in the Age of Encounters - Hardcover

Horodowich, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107150876 ISBN 13: 9781107150874

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

As the print capital of early modern Europe, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. Horodowich demonstrates how with their printed texts and maps, Venetian newsmongers embraced a fertile tension between the distant and the close. In doing so, they played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

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Reseña del editor

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 tension between the distant and the close. In doing so, they played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

Biografía del autor

Elizabeth Horodowich is Professor of History at New Mexico State University. She is the author of Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice (Cambridge, 2008), and A Brief History of Venice (2009), and is the recipient of awards and fellowships from a variety of institutions, including Harvard University's Villa I Tatti, the American Historical Association, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1107150876
• ISBN 13: 9781107150874
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 338