Thomaso Porcacchis »L'Isole piu famose del mondo«: Zur Text- und Wortgeschichte der Geographie im Cinquecento (mit Teiledition) (Beihefte zur ... romanische Philologie, 326)

by Annette Gerstenberg

Porcacchi based his L'Isole piu famose del mondo (Venice 1572) on the most important geographical texts of the day. As a contribution to the linguistic history of non-literary texts in Italian, his compilation is presented here for the first time in a modern (part-)edition and evaluated in connection with its sources as a key text for the 'textual and lexical history of geography' with regard to (a) the conceptual history of geografia and geographic text traditions, (b) language-internal features and language-external contextualization, (c) techniques of intertextuality and comparative text-genre study. There is also a glossary of geographic terms and island names.

403 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004