Printing a Mediterranean World: Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography

by Sean E. Roberts and Sean Roberts

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674066480
• ISBN13: 9780674066489
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"