Il Cuscho Citta Principale della Provincia del Peru
| Reference: | ms5814 |
| Author | Giovanni Battista RAMUSIO |
| Year: | 1556 ca. |
| Zone: | Cuzco |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 380 x 275 mm |
€350.00
| Reference: | ms5814 |
| Author | Giovanni Battista RAMUSIO |
| Year: | 1556 ca. |
| Zone: | Cuzco |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 380 x 275 mm |
€350.00
Description
A very early view of the city of Cuzco based on Braun & Hogenberg's depiction of the city.
Several figures depicted both inside the city walls and on the hillside and roads leading into the city.
Title in ribbon banner. Fine crisp impression of this scarce early view. Blank verso. Accompanied by the Italian text sheet describing the city.
Published just 22 years after the Spanish conquest of the city led by Pizarro, the woodcut is one of the few extant images from the Discovery Period of an intact Incan city. The regular, geometric street pattern suggests the Incan city was built according to plan. Its most prominent feature is the temple-palace complex to the left. The city also became the center of the Spanish colonial empire in South America and would prosper.
Very faint discoloration along fold, overall very good. Woodcut, in good condition.
Giovanni Battista RAMUSIO (Treviso 1485 - Padova 1557)
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Geographer, historian , and man of letters. Taught by Pomponazzi in Padua , he had a deep knowledge of classical and oriental languages, carried out many delicate political missions, and became a secretary of the Venetian senate in 1515. He is known mainly for his three-volume Le navigationi et viaggi (1550, 1556, 1559), which collects the most famous accounts of travels from antiquity to his own time.
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Giovanni Battista RAMUSIO (Treviso 1485 - Padova 1557)
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Geographer, historian , and man of letters. Taught by Pomponazzi in Padua , he had a deep knowledge of classical and oriental languages, carried out many delicate political missions, and became a secretary of the Venetian senate in 1515. He is known mainly for his three-volume Le navigationi et viaggi (1550, 1556, 1559), which collects the most famous accounts of travels from antiquity to his own time.
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