Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to

This volume considers Italy's history and examines how Italians became fascinated with the New World in the early modern period.

The field of Venetian studies has experienced a significant expansion in recent years, and the Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 provides a single volume

Since the extensive floods of 1966, inhabitants of Venice's laguna areas have come to share in, and reflect upon, concerns over pressing environmental problems.