Lisbon in the Renaissance: A New Translation of the Urbis Olisiponis Descriptio
ISBN: 9781599100609
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Italica Press, Inc.
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Lisbon (Portugal) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Lisbon (Portugal) -- History;

De Gois was a Portuguese humanist, a friend of Erasmus and his circle, and a writer imbued with the classical learning of his day. His Description of Lisbon was written in 1554 at the height of the city's commercial and cultural influence. It places the city in its geographical and historical setting, surveys its topography and environs, and reviews its major architectural attractions. Ruth's introduction places de Góis in the intellectual and historical context of the age, summarizes previous scholarship on the author and his work, and provides useful notes. This edition also includes reproductions of the full 1598 map of Lisbon published by Braun and Hogenberg and a complete English transcription of their numbered key -- an indispensable tool for the topography of the Renaissance city. Introduction, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations, maps.


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