Table of Contents

1. Introduction: printing the new world in early modern Venice; 2. Compiled geographies: the Venetian travelogue and the Americas; 3. Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Venetian new world; 4. The Venetian mapping of the Americas; 5. Venetians in America: Nicolo Zen and the virtual exploration of the New World; 6. Venice as Tenochtitlan: the correspondence of the old world and the new; Conclusion.

Promotional Information

Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

About the Author

Elizabeth Horodowich is Professor of History at New Mexico State University. She is the author of Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice (Cambridge, 2008), and A Brief History of Venice (2009), and is the recipient of awards and fellowships from a variety of institutions, including Harvard University's Villa I Tatti, the American Historical Association, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Reviews

'[a] richly illustrated and fascinating and convincing work in its argument.' Felicitas Schmieder, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken

'As well as illuminating the cultural and intellectual history of the Serenissima at this time, the book also constitutes a significant new contribution to the study of early modern global history and mobility by shedding light on the flow of ideas, texts, and images that circulated between and around Europe and the Americas through a variety of different media.' Rosa Salzberg, Journal of Modern History