Elizabeth Horodowich: 2 books
The Venetian Discovery of America
Geographic Imagination in the Age of Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. Venetian editors, mapmakers, translators, writers, and cosmographers represented the New World at times as a place that the...
by Elizabeth Horodowich
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
In this colourful new history of Venice, Elizabeth Horodowich, one of the leading experts on Venice, tells the story of the place from its ancient origins, and its early days as a multicultural trading city where Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together at the crossroads between East and West....