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Author Gerbi, Antonello, 1904-1976, author.

Title Nature in the New World : from Christopher Columbus to Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo / by Antonello Gerbi ; translated by Jeremy Moyle
Edition First paperback edition
Published Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, June 2010 ; Chicago : Chicago Distribution Center [distributor]
©1985

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 462 pages)
Summary Annotation. In Nature in the New World (translated 1985), Antonello Gerbiexamines the fascinating reports of the first Europeans to see the Americas. These accounts provided the basis for the images of strange and new flora, fauna, and human creatures that filled European imaginations.<br /><br />Initial chapters are devoted to the writings of Columbus, Vespucci, Cortés, Verrazzano, and others. The second portion of the book concerns the Historia general y natural de las Indias of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, a work commissioned by Charles V of Spain in 1532 but not published in its entirety until the 1850s. Antonello Gerbi contends that Oviedo, a Spanish administrator who lived in Santo Domingo, has been unjustly neglected as a historian. Gerbi shows that Oviedo was a major authority on the culture, history, and conquest of the New World
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed May 14, 2015)
Subject Natural history -- America -- Pre-Linnean works
Discoveries in geography -- Spanish
Natural history
SUBJECT America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004256
America -- Early works to 1800
Subject America
Genre/Form Early works
Form Electronic book
Author Moyle, Jeremy, translator.
ISBN 9780822960805
082296080X
9780822973812
0822973812