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Imagining the New World: Columbian iconography
1991, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana
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Marvels, maps and monsters: Europe eyes the New World / Wilcomb E. Washburn
Widening horizons: navigation in the age of discovery / Silvio A. Bedini
The New World and the end of the world: evangelizing sixteenth-century Mexico / Pauline Moffitt Watts
The press comes to the Americas: printing and printers during the first century of the encounter of two worlds / W. Michael Mathes
Beyond the pillars of Hercules
The "true" face of Columbus
A new, astonishing flora and fauna
The Renaissance image of the American town
The European portrayal of the native Americans
Cartography of the New World
America seen from Europe
The Church discovers America
Europe and America: a history of a "biological exchange" / Antonio Di Meo.
Edition Notes
"This catalogue ... [was] conceived and organized by the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani in cooperation with The New-York Historical Society on the occasion of the Quincentenary of the European Encounter with the Americas."--Title page verso.
Exhibition held at The New-York Historical Society Museum, November 13, 1991 - January 26, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references.
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