Imagining the New World : Columbian iconography / catalogue edited by Irma B. Jaffe, Gianni Eugenio Viola, Franca Rovigatti.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	New-York Historical Society, Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana
Other Authors:	Jaffe, Irma B., Viola, Gianni Eugenio, Rovigatti, Franca
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Roma ; New York : Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, ©1991.
Subjects:	Columbus, Christopher > Influence > Exhibitions. Public opinion > Europe > Exhibitions. Europe > Civilization > American influences > Exhibitions. America > Discovery and exploration > Exhibitions. America > Foreign public opinion, European > Exhibitions.

Table of Contents:

Marvels, maps and monsters: Europe eyes the New World / Wilcomb E. Washburn
Widening horizons: navigation in the age of discovery / Silvio A. Bedini
The New World and the end of the world: evangelizing sixteenth-century Mexico / Pauline Moffitt Watts
The press comes to the Americas: printing and printers during the first century of the encounter of two worlds / W. Michael Mathes
Beyond the pillars of Hercules
The "true" face of Columbus
A ew, astonishing flora and fauna
The Renaissance image of the American town
The European portrayal of the native Americans
Cartography of the New World
America seen from Europe
The Church discovers America
Europe and America: a history of a "biological exchange" / Antonio Di Meo.

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