Book contents
- The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy
- The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Notes and Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Painted Map
- Chapter 1 A Lost World: Maps as Decoration before the Sixteenth Century
- Chapter 2 Wonders Unknown to the Ancients: Maps as Decoration in the Early–Mid-Sixteenth Century
- Chapter 3 The Medici Guardaroba and Its Role in the Florentine Cosmos
- Chapter 4 “All the Things of Heaven and Earth Together”: The Guardaroba Program
- Chapter 5 Manufacturing a Universe: The Medici Guardaroba and Its Cosmographers
- Chapter 6 The Maps of the Medici Guardaroba
- Chapter 7 The Guardaroba and the Late Cinquecento Map-Cycle Competition
- Appendix The Curriculum of Don Stefano Buonsignori
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy
- The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Notes and Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Painted Map
- Chapter 1 A Lost World: Maps as Decoration before the Sixteenth Century
- Chapter 2 Wonders Unknown to the Ancients: Maps as Decoration in the Early–Mid-Sixteenth Century
- Chapter 3 The Medici Guardaroba and Its Role in the Florentine Cosmos
- Chapter 4 “All the Things of Heaven and Earth Together”: The Guardaroba Program
- Chapter 5 Manufacturing a Universe: The Medici Guardaroba and Its Cosmographers
- Chapter 6 The Maps of the Medici Guardaroba
- Chapter 7 The Guardaroba and the Late Cinquecento Map-Cycle Competition
- Appendix The Curriculum of Don Stefano Buonsignori
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Mapping of Power in Renaissance ItalyPainted Cartographic Cycles in Social and Intellectual Context, pp. xi - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014