Printing a Mediterranean world : Florence, Constantinople, and the renaissance of geography

Printing a Mediterranean world : Florence, Constantinople, and the renaissance of geography /

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 autho...

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Main Author: Roberts, Sean E.
Format: Electronic Map
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013
Series:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
Subjects:
Berlinghieri, Francesco, > 1440-1501. > Geographia.
Ptolemy, > active 2nd century. > Geographia.
Cartography > Italy > Florence > History > 15th century.
Cartography > Turkey > Istanbul > History > 15th century.
Europe > Maps > Early works to 1800.
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central

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