Mapping the Renaissance world
Subtitle: the geographical imagination in the age of discovery
By: Frank Lestringant ; translated by David Fausett ; with a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt.
Series: The new historicism ;; 32
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Thevet, Andre, 1502-1590.; Cosmography.
Description: This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker, Andre Thevet. Accused of blasphemous audacity and mocked for his encyclopaedic aims, the figure of Thevet is a wonderful example of the way knowledge of the world was transformed during the decline of the Renaissance.

Exploring the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery, Mapping the Renaissance World will be of interest to students and researchers in early modern history, literature and anthropology.
Notes: "Bibliography of works by André Thevet": p. [180]-186.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [136]-179) and index.