Autore
Besse, Jean-Marc

Titolo
Sui passi di Sebastian Münster. Pratiche dello spazio e scrittura geografica nel Rinascimento
Periodico
Quaderni storici
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 142 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 167 - Pagina finale: 196

The preparation of the third edition of the Cosmographia universalis (1550)gave Sebastian Münster the opportunity to considerably enhance the descriptionscontained in the original publication and to include additional illustrations, as well asto reconsider the structure of the work as a whole. The aim of this essay is to analyzethe work of the cosmographer from Basle in relation to the concrete spaces in whichhe lived and worked: firstly, those spaces and places that Münster knew first hand,from his own travels; secondly, the spaces formed by the intellectual, religious andpolitical networks of people within which he moved, and which he used to obtaininformation from places and countries that he could not visit in person; and thirdly,the site of the library and of the book itself. This analysis suggests that the amount ofattention that the Cosmographia gives to different geographical spaces stands in directrelation to these three different kinds of spaces and the scales and kinds of observationthey could offer to Münster: whereas the book seems to devote a disproportionallyhigh amount of attention to the German countries and to the European continent,other geographical areas like the American continent obtain correspondingly littleattention and appear as underrepresented.



SICI: 0301-6307(2013)142:1<167:SPDSMP>2.0.ZU;2-9
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