True Description of Cairo A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View

Name: True Description of Cairo A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View
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ISBN: 9780197144060

ISBN-10: 0197144063

ISBN-13: 9780197144060

Edition: 2006

Authors: Nicholas Warner

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In 1549 a Venetian print maker, Matteo Pagano, published a large engraving of an aerial view of the city of Cairo; it was accompanied by a Latin text ('Descriptio Alchiriae') written by the orientalist scholar, Guillaume Postel. The depiction of the city is sufficiently accurate to permit a detailed interpretation of the city to be made, and it remained the standard western representation of this fabled eastern city for the next 250 years. Nicholas Warner provides a context for Pagano's view of Cairo, a translation of Postel's text, and a commentary on the contents of the engraving itself in addition to the accompanying narrative. An index of subsequent revisions, and a superbly produced…

Book details

List price: $475.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/20/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 456
Size: 9.45" wide x 12.60" long x 3.17" tall
Weight: 9.262
Language: English