Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi and fifteenth-century Venice / Angelo Cattaneo.
Pubblicazione:
Turnhout : Brepols, 2011.
Descrizione fisica:
444 p., [26] p. di tav. : ill. ; 28 cm +1 c. di tav.
Serie:
Terrarum orbis ; 8
Contiene:
Indice: Foreword. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Pt. 1. Encompassing the fifteenth-century world and re-creating the Imago Mundi: 1. Fra Mauro's life and work: a critical survey of spurces with emphasis on his Mappa Mundi and its reception to 1600 2. The cosmos of a mid-fifteenth century work 3. Theology, cosmography, art: the earthly paradise in Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi 4. Readers and readings of Ptolemy's Geography in Venice in the mid-fifteenth century 5. Travel accounts and cartography: Fra Mauro, Marco Polo and Niccolò de' Conti 6. The cultural matrices and narratives structure of fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi. Pt. 2. Patronage, marketplaces: the history of cartography: 1. At the origin of the map market in fifteenth-century Venice, Florence and Barcelona 2. The confluence of politics and scholarship: the Mappa Mundi within the dawning of the history of cartography. Epilogue. Pt. 3. Documentary Appendices. Sources. Bibliography. Index codicum. Index nominum et operum
