Imagining the new world
Subtitle: Columbian iconography
By: catalogue edited by Irma B. Jaffe, Gianni Eugenio Viola, Franca Rovigatti.
Contributors: Jaffe, Irma B.; Rovigatti, Franca.; Viola, Gianni Eugenio.; Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana.; New-York Historical Society.
Publisher: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Roma
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Columbus, Christopher -- Influence -- Exhibitions.; Public opinion -- Europe -- Exhibitions.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Exhibitions.; America -- Foreign public opinion, European -- Exhibitions.; Europe -- Civilization -- American influences -- Exhibitions.
Notes: "Exhibition ... conceived and organized by the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani in cooperation with The New-York Historical Society [for] the Quincentenary of the European Encounter with the Americas " -- t.p. verso.

Catalogue of the exhibition at The New-York Historical Society Museum, 1 Nov. 1991-26 Jan. 1992.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Contents: Marvels, maps and monsters: Europe eyes the New World / Wilcomb E. Washburn; value: Widening horizons: navigation in the age of discovery / Silvio A. Bedini; value: The New World and the end of the world: evangelizing sixteenth-century Mexico / Pauline Moffitt Watts; value: The press comes to the Americas: printing and printers during the first century of the encounter of two worlds / W. Michael Mathes; value: Catalogue of the exhibition; value: Appendix.