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The Venetian Discovery of America investigates Venice’s unique position in the early modern world and its relationship to the geographic transformations unleashed by European encounters with the Americas. Rather than focusing solely on exploration narratives, Elizabeth Horodowich demonstrates how Venetian scholars, merchants, and printers engaged with and reinterpreted geographic knowledge during this pivotal period.
Through an analysis of printed texts, maps, and correspondence, the book reveals how Venetian print culture played a vital role in disseminating information about the New World across Renaissance Europe. Horodowich argues that Venice’s commercial networks and intellectual traditions enabled its citizens to develop sophisticated geographic imaginations that both reflected and influenced European understanding of global space. This work contributes to our understanding of how knowledge circulated in early modern Europe and how print technology transformed geographic discourse.
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