Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy - Rilegato

Carlton, Genevieve

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ISBN 10: 022625531X ISBN 13: 9780226255316

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. InWorldly Consumers, Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to private consumers during the Italian Renaissance and shows how map acquisition and display became central tools for constructing personal identity and impressing one’s peers.

Drawing on a variety of sixteenth-century sources, including household inventories, epigrams, dedications, catalogs, travel books, and advice manuals,Worldly Consumers studies how individuals displayed different maps in their homes as deliberate acts of self-fashioning. One citizen decorated with maps of Bruges, Holland, Flanders, and Amsterdam to remind visitors of his military prowess, for example, while another hung maps of cities where his ancestors fought or governed, in homage to his auspicious family history. Renaissance Italians turned domestic spaces into a microcosm of larger geographical places to craft cosmopolitan, erudite identities for themselves, creating a new class of consumers who drew cultural capital from maps of the time.

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L'autore:

Genevieve Carlton is assistant professor of early modern European history at the University of Louisville.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 022625531X
• ISBN 13: 9780226255316
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 237