Worldly Consumers
Subtitle: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226255316
Subjects: Maps; Italy, history
Description: "This book focuses on how inexpensive maps, produced for the masses, accrued cultural value for everyday consumers in Renaissance Italy, who wanted to own and display maps in their homes as works of art--not for practical use, but for their cultural capital as commodities"--ECIP info.