La Sfera / The Globe

THIS VOLUME presents the complete text of Gregorio Dati’s La Sfera, a parallel English translation, and an array of images from the manuscript tradition. Seven authors examine the intellectual and literary genres that influenced Dati, including mapping traditions, medieval cosmology, geography, and natural science, and the traditions of vernacular composition. Their academic disciplines include history, the history of science, literary history, textual criticism, and paleography. This illustrated edition reproduces images from its many different manuscripts to give readers a clear understanding of Dati’s holistic approach to fifteenth-century poetry, science, art, commerce, and cartography. Preface, introduction, complete Italian text of La Sfera with parallel English translation, notes to the text and to the figures, bibliography, index. 55 color manuscript images, 1 greyscale image, 1 table, 2 new maps.— Google Books