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Did Alexander the Great Discover America? Debating Space and Time in Renaissance Istanbul

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2019

Giancarlo Casale
Giancarlo Casale*
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University of Minnesota / European University Institute
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Abstract

Following the first European voyages of exploration to the New World, several Ottoman authors debated whether Alexander the Great may have already known of the American continent in classical antiquity. By exploring the contours of this previously unstudied intra-Ottoman debate, the present article challenges the prevailing scholarly view that sixteenth-century Ottoman writings about the Americas were at best frivolous and at worst incoherent. Instead, these texts engaged with many of the same questions provoked by the discoveries in contemporary Europe, while at the same time intersecting with the most profound and contested concerns of Ottoman statecraft.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 72 , Issue 3 , Fall 2019 , pp. 863 - 909
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 2019 

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Research for this article was supported by a fellowship from Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Previous versions were presented at the Collège de France, in Paris; the Central European University's Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, in Budapest; the Kunsthistorisches Institut, in Florence; and the Seminar for Medieval and Early Modern Art History at Concordia University, in Montreal.

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