Title: A mapmaker's dream
Description: A monk in 16th Century Venice creates a map of the world, based on the tales of travellers he receives in his monastery. Fra Mauro, official cartographer, interprets and speculates on the world, turning map making into a voyage of human imagination. By the author of Letters from the Wild Side.
Subjects: Courts and courtiers, Cartographers, Fiction, Italy, fiction, Fiction, visionary & metaphysical
Places: Venice (Italy)
People: Mauro fra (-1459)