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The Politics of the Isolario: Maritime Cosmography and Overseas Expansion During the Renaissance [PDF]
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George Tolias
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This essay proposes three models of Mediterranean space and action that emerge out of early modern narratives and visuals (particularly maps). These overlapping models, for the long sixteenth century, are: 1) itinerary; 2) empire; and 3) predator, all ...
Palmira Brummett
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From Odysseus to Robinson Crusoe: A Survey of Early Western Island Literature [PDF]
This paper examines the history and development of books about islands in Western culture. Islands are prominent in Homer’s Odyssey, and Plato’s island of Atlantis is perhaps the most famous mythical island of all time.
Chet Van Duzer
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A proposito dell’iconografia e della cartografia del viaggio rinascimentale a Costantinopoli
During the Renaissance, Venice acquired a leading role as a publishing centre and as a gathering place for geographical and cartographical information. New historical and cultural conditions, such as the rise of the Ottoman Empire and the secularization ...
Toni Veneri
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Microcosmi mediterranei narrati e illustrati nell’isolario dell’ingegnere militare Francesco Ferretti [PDF]
Flouwered in the first decades of the fifteenth century, the cartographic-literary genre of islands books constitutes a suggestive and important chapter in the history of geographical representations, despite having aroused limited interest among ...
M. Bertini
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AS-level BGP community usage classification [PDF]
BGP communities are a popular mechanism used by network operators for traffic engineering, blackholing, and to realize network policies and business strategies.
Thomas Krenc +2 more
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Enredos historiográficos : Lope ante Lepanto [PDF]
Se analiza La Santa Liga de Lope de Vega, con referencia a la diversidad de propuestas de narrar la batalla de Lepanto, tal como habían surgido a distancia de dos décadas de la batalla naval del 7 octubre de 1571.This article proposes that the long ...
Wright, Elizabeth R.
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"Worldwide" - "weltweit": De la vida en mundos transarchipiélicos [PDF]
En el presente trabajo se pretende ilustrar el islario y la isla desde diversos enfoques —histórico, cultural y lírico— para revelar la complejidad circunstancial de su tratamiento y el intento por descubrir su presencia en las literaturas del mundo, a ...
Ette, Ottmar
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Preliminares (a unas Teoría/S "archipiélicas") [PDF]
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Vauthier, Bénédicte
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El cartógrafo a bordo: registros de testigos presenciales en las cartas náuticas tempranas [PDF]
In this article I examine early nautical charts and isolarii, or island books illustrated with maps, for evidence that indicates the maps were made on the basis of first-hand observation by the cartographer.
Van Duzer, Chet
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