Printing a Mediterranean World : Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography / Sean Roberts.
Roberts, Sean, author.
2013
G1005 1482 .B5 2013eb
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Title Printing a Mediterranean World : Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography / Sean Roberts.
Author Roberts, Sean, author.
ISBN 9780674068070
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674068070
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 25 halftones
Item Number 10.4159/harvard.9780674068070 doi
Call Number G1005 1482 .B5 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 526.09409 024
Summary 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 author "travels" the known world), is interleaved with lavishly engraved maps to accompany readers on this journey. Sean Roberts demonstrates that the Geographia represents the moment of transition between printing and manuscript culture, while forming a critical base for the rise of modern cartography. Simultaneously, the use of the Geographia as a diplomatic gift from Florence to the Ottoman Empire tells another story. This exchange expands our understanding of Mediterranean politics, European perceptions of the Ottomans, and Ottoman interest in mapping and print. The envoy to the Sultan represented the aspirations of the Florentine state, which chose not to bestow some other highly valued good, such as the city's renowned textiles, but instead the best example of what Florentine visual, material, and intellectual culture had to offer.
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Series I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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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

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