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Free Download Venetian Gardens
English | February 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1785947427 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 109 Mb
Join Monty Don, Britain’s pre-eminent gardener, and acclaimed photographer Derry Moore on their historic journey through the most stunning gardens of Venice and the Veneto.

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 Pier Mattia Tommasino, "The Venetian Qur’an: A Renaissance Companion to Islam "
English | ISBN: 0812250125 | 2018 | 320 pages | PDF | 5 MB
An anonymous book appeared in Venice in 1547 titled L’Alcorano di Macometto, and, according to the title page, it contained "the doctrine, life, customs, and laws [of Mohammed] . . . newly translated from Arabic into the Italian language." Were this true, L’Alcorano di Macometto would have been the first printed direct translation of the Qur’an in a European vernacular language. The truth, however, was otherwise. As soon became clear, the Qur’anic sections of the book-about half the volume-were in fact translations of a twelfth-century Latin translation that had appeared in print in Basel in 1543. The other half included commentary that balanced anti-Islamic rhetoric with new interpretations of Muhammad’s life and political role in pre-Islamic Arabia. Despite having been discredited almost immediately, the

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

Free Download Richard Henry Major, Niccolò Zeno, Ívarr Bárðarson, "The Voyages of the Venetian Brothers, Nicolò & Antonio Zeno, to the Northern Seas in the XIVth Century"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1015947093, 1015942121 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 1.6 mb
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Free Download Italian Paintings, Venetian School: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Federico Zeri, Elizabeth G. Gardner
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0300193645 | 114 Pages | PDF | 21.7 MB
There are now over 400 Italian paintings in the Metropolitan Museum, 150 of them acquired in the more than thirty years since the Museum first published a catalogue of its Italian works.