Leggere Ruscelli a Istanbul

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_18186
dc.contributor.author	Casale Giancarlo
dc.title	Leggere Ruscelli a Istanbul. L’incontro di un müderris ottomano con un’opera di cartografia rinascimentale
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	This essay reconstructs a largely forgotten project by a group of late sixteenth‑century Ottoman intellectuals to challenge traditional cosmographic knowledge, and to introduce the principles of modern mathematical cartography, through the systematic engagement with material from recently published Italian printed texts. It does so by comparing three different manuscript versions of Sipahizade Mehmed’s Kitāb‑ı Evẓaḥ al‑Mesālik ilā Maʿrifeti’l‑Buldān ve’l‑Memālik (The Conspicuous Pathways to Knowledge of Kingdoms and Countries), an encyclopaedia of world geography that the author progressively developed and rewrote over the course of nearly two decades, between the early 1560s and the 1580s. The final of these versions, containing the most radically new ideas on world geography, exists today in a single, incomplete copy from the eighteenth century – possibly an indication that its content was considered politically unpalatable by Sipahizade’s most influential colleagues.
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasian Studies
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2024-02-21
dc.dateAccepted	2023-09-07
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-06-26
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-794-4/leggere-ruscelli-a-istanbul/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-794-4/003
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-794-4
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Girolamo Ruscelli
dc.subject	Islam
dc.subject	Ottoman geography
dc.subject	Ottoman cartography
dc.subject	Ottoman cartography
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Sipahizade Mehmed

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Leggere Ruscelli a Istanbul

L’incontro di un müderris ottomano con un’opera di cartografia rinascimentale

Giancarlo Casale Istituto Universitario Europeo

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This essay reconstructs a largely forgotten project by a group of late sixteenth‑century Ottoman intellectuals to challenge traditional cosmographic knowledge, and to introduce the principles of modern mathematical cartography, through the systematic engagement with material from recently published Italian printed texts. It does so by comparing three different manuscript versions of Sipahizade Mehmed’s Kitāb‑ı Evẓaḥ al‑Mesālik ilā Maʿrifeti’l‑Buldān ve’l‑Memālik (The Conspicuous Pathways to Knowledge of Kingdoms and Countries), an encyclopaedia of world geography that the author progressively developed and rewrote over the course of nearly two decades, between the early 1560s and the 1580s. The final of these versions, containing the most radically new ideas on world geography, exists today in a single, incomplete copy from the eighteenth century – possibly an indication that its content was considered politically unpalatable by Sipahizade’s most influential colleagues.

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Feb. 21, 2024

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Sept. 7, 2023

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June 26, 2023

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978-88-6969-794-4

Keywords: Ottoman geography • Sipahizade Mehmed • Girolamo Ruscelli • Science • Islam • Ottoman cartography • Ottoman cartography

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