Imagining the New World
Subtitle: Columbian iconography
By: catalogue edited by Irma B. Jaffe, Gianni Eugenio Viola, Franca Rovigatti
Contributors: New-York Historical Society; Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana
Publisher: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Roma; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Exhibitions; Discoveries in geography; European Public opinion; Influence; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Civilization; Public opinion; European Foreign public opinion; American influences; Discovery and exploration
Notes: "This catalogue ... [was] conceived and organized by the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani in cooperation with The New-York Historical Society on the occasion of the Quincentenary of the European Encounter with the Americas."--Title page verso.

Exhibition held at The New-York Historical Society Museum, November 13, 1991 - January 26, 1992.

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