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Worldly Consumers

The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy

By: Genevieve Carlton

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The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy

By: Genevieve Carlton

Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In Worldly Consumers, Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to private consumers during the Italian Renaissance and shows how map acquisition and display became central tools for constructing personal identity and impressing one’s peers. Drawing on a variety of sixteenth-century sources, including household inventories, epigrams, dedications, catalogs, travel books, and advice manuals, Worldly Consumers studies how individuals displayed different maps in their homes as deliberate acts of self-fashioning. One citizen decorated with maps of Bruges, Holland, Flanders, and Amsterdam to remind visitors of his military prowess, for example, while another hung maps of cities where his ancestors fought or governed, in homage to his auspicious family history. Renaissance Italians turned domestic spaces into a microcosm of larger geographical places to craft cosmopolitan, erudite identities for themselves, creating a new class of consumers who drew cultural capital from maps of the time.

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University of Chicago Press

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022625545X

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9780226255453

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When Someone Disappears

By: Genevieve Sesto

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When Someone Disappears

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In the midst of a hominid skull controversy, a paleoanthropologist must confront her past -- which keeps popping up as she struggles with guilt over the way she raised her daughter. Plagued by failure over her marriage, her relationship with her invalid father, her lack of drive in her profession, she must now confront the mystery of a friend who has suddenly disappeared.

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0967361443

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9780967361444

Corpse Pose

By: Genevieve Sesto

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Corpse Pose

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While visiting his father in jail, Seth Barbieri learns a bizarre secretNJohn F. Kennedy did not die. He was whisked away from Parkland Hospital, kept alive on machines, at last healed, and over the years, slowly, painfully rehabilitated. Emma Catlaps is consumed by the mystery of a living JFK sequestered in Upper Manhattan, in hidden luxury. Ultimately Emma must uncover forces behind fierce pride and undying desire.

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0967361451

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9780967361451

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When Someone Disappears

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