Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to

This volume considers Italy's history and examines how Italians became fascinated with the New World in the early modern period.

Published simultaneously in New York by Alfred A. Knopf under title: Irresistible north: from Venice to Greenland on the trail of the Zen brothers.