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5 days ago · THIS EARTHLY GLOBE. A Venetian geographer and the quest to map the world. 272pp. Atlantic. £22. Andrea Di Robilant. If you were taught the “correct” way to draw a map at school, this doubtless involved including a scale, having a key for your symbols and adding a compass rose with north at the top.
Sep 17, 2024 · Two years into his marriage with Mary, wife number four, Hemingway fell hard for the young Italian beauty, 30 years his junior. The newly published book by Andrea di Robilant, “goes deep into this emotionally disturbing period of Papa Hemingway’s life. The result is a love story on two levels — one involving an alluring city, the other ...
Sep 17, 2024 · Two additional volumes delivered the most accurate information on Asia and the “New World” available at the time. The three volumes together constituted an unparalleled release of geographical data into the public domain. It was, Andrea di Robilant writes, the biggest Wikileak of the Renaissance. In
Sep 19, 2024 · Andrea Di Robilant’s A Venetian Affair is drawn in part from a cache of letters discovered by the author’s father in his ancestral palazzo on the Grand Canal. In 1753, his ancestor Andrea Memmo had been introduced to a lovely girl of uncertain station (illegitimate, although her parents later married).
Sep 15, 2024 · This delightful journey begins with Andrea di Robilant’s serendipitous discovery of a travel narrative published in Venice in 1558 by the Renaissance statesman Nicolò Zen: the text and its fascinating nautical map re-created the travels of two of the author’s ancestors, brothers who explored the North Atlantic in the 1380s and 1390s.
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2 days ago · In an enthralling narrative, Andrea di Robilant brings to life the man who used all his political skill, along with the help of conniving diplomats and spies, to democratise knowledge and show how the world was much larger than anyone previously imagined.
Sep 4, 2024 · There's a wonderful novel by an Italian writer named Andrea di Robilant called Autumn in Venice, which tells the story of Hemingway and his relationship with an Italian Aristocrat, Adriana Ivancich.
