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The mapping of power in renaissance Italy: painted cartographic cycles in social and intellectual context

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A lost world: maps as decoration before the sixteenth century -- Wonders unknown to the ancients: maps as decoration in the early-mid sixteenth century -- The Medici Guardaroba and its role in the Florentine cosmos -- "All the things of heaven and earth together": the Guardaroba program -- Manufacturing a universe: the Medici Guardaroba and its cosmographers -- The maps of the Medici Guardaroba -- The Guardaroba and the late cinquecento map-cycle competition.

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    New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015

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    1480-1600

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    • 1107067030
    • 9781107067035

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