Lisbon in the Renaissance

DE GOIS’ Description was written in 1554 at the height of the city’s commercial and cultural influence. It places the city in its geographical and historical setting, surveys its topography and environs, and reviews its major architectural attractions. Jeffrey Ruth’s introductionplaces de Góis in his humanist intellectual and historical context. This edition includes the 1598 Lisbon map by Braun & Hogenberg and transcribes its numbered key: an indispensable tool for the topography of the Renaissance city. A new translation of the Urbis Olisiponis Descriptio by Jeffrey S. Ruth. Introduction, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations, maps.— Google Books