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From Odysseus to Robinson Crusoe: A Survey of Early Western Island Literature [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2006 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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Los Libros de la Corte.es, 2023 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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The Politics of the Isolario: Maritime Cosmography and Overseas Expansion During the Renaissance
Historical Review, 2013 No ...
George Tolias
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A proposito dell’iconografia e della cartografia del viaggio rinascimentale a Costantinopoli
Between, 2011 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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Introduction: Australia's Mediterranean isolario
Journal of Australian Studies, 2014Luisa Percopo
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