Nature in the New World : from Christopher Columbus to Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo / Antonello Gerbi ; translated by Jeremy Moyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerbi, Antonello, 1904-1976, author.

Contributor:

Moyle, Jeremy, translator.

Standardized Title:

Natura delle Indie nove. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--America--Pre-Linnean works.

Natural history.

America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.

America.

America--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Translated by Jeremy Moyle In Nature in the New World (translated into English in 1985), Antonello Gerbi examines the fascinating reports of the first Europeans to see the Americas. These accounts provided the basis for the images of strange and new flora, fauna, and human creatures that filled European imaginations.Initial chapters are devoted to the writings of Columbus, Vespucci, Cortes, Verrazzano, and others. The second portion of the book concerns the Historia general y natural de las Indias of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo, a work commissioned by Charles V of Spain in 1532 but not published in its entirety until the 1850s. Antonello Gerbi contends that Oviedo, a Spanish administrator who lived in Santo Domingo, has been unjustly neglected as a historian. Gerbi shows that Oviedo was a major authority on the culture, history, and conquest of the New World.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Translator's Preface

Part 1. From Columbus to Verrazzano

I. Introduction

II. Christopher Columbus

III. Doctor Alvarez Chanca

IV. Nicolò Scillacio

V. Michele da Cuneo

VI. Amerigo Vespucci

VII. The Pseudo-Vespucci

VIII. Peter Martyr

IX. Martín Fernández de Enciso's "Suma de Geographía

X. Hernán Cortés

XI. Antonio Pigafetta

XII. Giovanni da Verrazzano

XIII. The Spanish Government and the Geographical Knowledge of the Indies

Interlude

Part 2. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo

XIV. Life and Literary Reputation

XV. Oviedo and Italy

XVI. The Claribalte

XVII. Historical Criteria and Geographical Setting

XVIII. View of the Historical and Natural World

XIX. Relics of Medievalism and Dawn of a New Society

XX. The Quinquagenas

XXI. Oviedo's Art and Humor

Appendix

Bibiliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Translation of: La natura delle Indie nove.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781322068800

1322068801

9780822973812

0822973812

OCLC:

772645656