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Free Download This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World by Andrea di Robilant
English | August 1, 2024 | ISBN: 0857891790 | 272 pages | PDF | 13 Mb
From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair ("A narrative of novelistic resonance…Astonishing" – The Washington Post ), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography

Free Download This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World, UK Edition by Andrea di Robilant
English | August 1st, 2024 | ISBN: 0857891790 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 13.08 MB
DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans was published in Venice under the title Navigationi et Viaggi (Journeys and Navigations). This was closely followed by two further volumes that, when taken together, constituted the largest release of geographical data in history, and could well be considered the birth of modern geography.

Free Download This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World by Andrea Di Robilant
English | June 18, 2024 | ISBN: 0307597075 | 272 pages | PDF | 26 Mb
From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair ("A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing" -The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography

Free Download This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DC72MV6W | 2024 | 7 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 216 MB
Author: Andrea Di Robilant
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
During the Age of Discovery a little-known public servant in the Venetian government, Giovambattista Ramusio, anonymously assembled and edited three volumes-over two million words-that revealed our world as never before. It was, to use a current expression, the biggest Wikileak of the Renaissance. In an enthralling narrative, Andrea di Robilant brings to vivid life the man who used all his political skill, along with the help of conniving diplomats and spies, to ferret out a remarkable collection of journals, private letters and classified government reports, which, when taken together, showed how the world was much larger than anyone previously imagined.

Free Download This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World by Andrea Di Robilant
English | June 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 0307597075 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 27.64 MB
From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair ("A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing" -The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography