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Shores of Vespucci : A Historical Research of Amerigo Vespucci's Life and Contexts in Collaboration with Francisco Contente Domingues.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Passagem SerPublisher: Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (270 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783653048278
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shores of VespucciDDC classification:
  • 970.016092
LOC classification:
  • E125.V5 .S567 2018
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Shores of Vespucci (Angelo Cattaneo) -- I. Philology, Images and Memory -- The "Vespucci Question," Today (Luciano Formisano) -- The Voyager as a Scholar. Amerigo Vespucci in Early Modern Graphical Representations (Marília dos Santos Lopes) -- Amerigo Vespucci's Mundus Novus and the Exotic Perceptions of the Other in Sixteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Portuguese Historiography (Ana Paula Avelar) -- II. Cosmography -- New Insights on the Maps of the Vespuccis: Giorgio Antonio, Amerigo and Giovanni (Chet Van Duzer) -- The Copy of Ptolemy's Geography (Rome, 1478) owned by the Vespuccis (Gerard González Germain) -- Ringmann, Waldseemüller and the Philological Cosmography of the New World (Davide Baldi) -- Waldseemüller's 1507 World Map as Speculative Cartography. Landscapes on the Edge (José María García Redondo) -- Islands in the Horizon: The Insular Thinking in the Writings of Amerigo Vespucci and the Early Portuguese Maritime Explorations (Luís Adão da Fonseca) -- III. Between Portugal and Spain -- Amerigo Vespucci in the Service of the Crown of Castile (Consuelo Varela) -- Vespucci, Imperial Competition, and the Casa de la Contratación, 1508-1530 (Edward Collins) -- IV. Beyond Iberia -- Beyond Iberia: Florentine Bankers and Cabot's Voyage to the "New Land" (Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli) -- Vespucci and the Ottomans: New Worlds for All? A description of the Americas from Seydi Ali Reis's Book of the Surrounding Sea (Giancarlo Casale) -- Mundus Novus - China - Terra Australis: Successive New World Fantasies (Ricardo Padrón) -- Plates -- Bibliography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Afterword.
Summary: This volume explores the intense cultural and historical tensions shaping the varied contexts of Amerigo Vespucci's life and fortune. The study combines approaches from literary history, philology, the history of science and ideas, the history of the European expansion and cartography, and economic history.
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Cover -- Contents -- Shores of Vespucci (Angelo Cattaneo) -- I. Philology, Images and Memory -- The "Vespucci Question," Today (Luciano Formisano) -- The Voyager as a Scholar. Amerigo Vespucci in Early Modern Graphical Representations (Marília dos Santos Lopes) -- Amerigo Vespucci's Mundus Novus and the Exotic Perceptions of the Other in Sixteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Portuguese Historiography (Ana Paula Avelar) -- II. Cosmography -- New Insights on the Maps of the Vespuccis: Giorgio Antonio, Amerigo and Giovanni (Chet Van Duzer) -- The Copy of Ptolemy's Geography (Rome, 1478) owned by the Vespuccis (Gerard González Germain) -- Ringmann, Waldseemüller and the Philological Cosmography of the New World (Davide Baldi) -- Waldseemüller's 1507 World Map as Speculative Cartography. Landscapes on the Edge (José María García Redondo) -- Islands in the Horizon: The Insular Thinking in the Writings of Amerigo Vespucci and the Early Portuguese Maritime Explorations (Luís Adão da Fonseca) -- III. Between Portugal and Spain -- Amerigo Vespucci in the Service of the Crown of Castile (Consuelo Varela) -- Vespucci, Imperial Competition, and the Casa de la Contratación, 1508-1530 (Edward Collins) -- IV. Beyond Iberia -- Beyond Iberia: Florentine Bankers and Cabot's Voyage to the "New Land" (Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli) -- Vespucci and the Ottomans: New Worlds for All? A description of the Americas from Seydi Ali Reis's Book of the Surrounding Sea (Giancarlo Casale) -- Mundus Novus - China - Terra Australis: Successive New World Fantasies (Ricardo Padrón) -- Plates -- Bibliography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Afterword.

This volume explores the intense cultural and historical tensions shaping the varied contexts of Amerigo Vespucci's life and fortune. The study combines approaches from literary history, philology, the history of science and ideas, the history of the European expansion and cartography, and economic history.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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