“Unexpected Maps: Real and Fictional Space in premodern literary and religious works”
Federica Caneparo, Research Associate Professor of Renaissance Italian Literature and Visual Culture, University of Chicago
A famous book of hours such as the Très riches heures du duc de Barry and literary masterpieces like Petrarch’s Canzoniere or Ariosto’s Orlando furioso are not commonly associated with cartography. And yet, maps are present in all of these works, illustrating real, imagined, and/or symbolic spaces. This paper explores the meanings, functions, and material characteristics of maps printed or drawn in premodern books unrelated with geography or travel literature.
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