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Author Roberts, Sean E.

Title Printing a Mediterranean world : Florence, Constantinople, and the renaissance of geography / Sean Roberts
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Series I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
Contents 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
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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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed March 27, 2013)
In English
Subject Berlinghieri, Francesco, 1440-1501. Geographia.
Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Geographia.
SUBJECT Geographia (Berlinghieri, Francesco) fast
Geographia (Ptolemy) fast
Subject Cartography -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- 15th century
Cartography -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- 15th century
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Cartography.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- Turkey & Ottoman Empire.
Cartography
SUBJECT Europe -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138802
Subject Europe
Italy -- Florence
Turkey
Turkey -- Istanbul
Genre/Form Early works
History
Maps
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674068070
0674068076
0674071611
9780674071612
Other Titles Florence, Constantinople, and the renaissance of geography