Monarchs, Ministers, and Maps
Subtitle: The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe (The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780226079875
First sentence: If the precocity of Italian cartography in portolan charts and nautical maps from the fourteenth century and the monumental magnificence of political-strategic maps like Egnazio Danti's designs in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio or the Vatican's Hall of Maps led us to believe that mapping was commonplace in Renaissance Italy, we would be greatly mistaken.