Writing New Worlds: The Cultural Dynamics of Curiosity in Early Modern Europe

320 Pages·2016·5.29 MB·English

by  Marília dos Santos Lopes

Writing New Worlds

Writing New Worlds
:
The Cultural Dynamics
of Curiosity in Early
Modern Europe
By
Marília dos Santos Lopes
Writing New Worlds:
The Cultural Dynamics of Curiosity in Early Modern Europe

By Marília dos Santos Lopes

Translation from the Portuguese (except for articles 11, 13 and 14):
Kevin Rose
This book first published 2016

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK

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Copyright © 2016 by Marília dos Santos Lopes

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ISBN (10): 1-4438-9030-8
ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-9030-4

With the support of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture
(CECC), financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT),
Portugal under the reference UID/ELT/00126/2013
CONTENTS
List of Figures........................................................................................... viii
Introduction ................................................................................................ xi
The Cultural Dynamics of Curiosity in Early Modern Europe
I Collecting News
Chapter One ................................................................................................. 2
Alvise Cadamosto and the Discovery of a New World
Chapter Two ................................................................................................ 9
Hans Staden: The “True History” of a 16th Century Voyage to Brazil
Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 17
Between Forced Settledness and Expulsion: The Situation of the Khoikhoi
in the Cape Colony
Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 35
Otto Friedrich von der Groeben: A Voyage across the Atlantic on behalf
of Brandenburg
Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 52
The Non-travelling Voyager: Gomes Eanes de Zurara
Chapter Six ................................................................................................ 63
“We saw today marvellous things”:Valentim Fernandes
and the Portuguese Discoveries
Chapter Seven ............................................................................................ 74
(Re)Discovering the World in Books, Magazines and Newspapers:
Hamburg and the News from Overseas (1650-1700)
vi Contents
II Voyages, the Visual and the Arts
Chapter Eight ............................................................................................. 82
The Maritime Voyages and the Art of Images
Chapter Nine ............................................................................................ 100
Turquerie in the Iconography of the 16th Century
Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 109
The Portuguese in Christoph Weiditz’s Trachtenbuch
Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 115
The Voyager as a Scholar: Amerigo Vespucci in Early Modern Graphical
Representation
Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 131
Seeing, Hearing, Speaking: Early Modern Representations of Missionaries
Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 145
Peregrinação by Fernão Mendes Pinto: A Source of Knowledge
Chapter Fourteen ..................................................................................... 157
Writing New Worlds: Eberhard Werner Happel and the Invention
of a Genre
III Travel, Experience and Knowledge
Chapter Fifteen ........................................................................................ 166
Translation and Imagination: ‘The Calicut People’ within the Context
of 16th Century Cosmographies
Chapter Sixteen ....................................................................................... 178
Building Knowledge: Sebastian Münster and his Cosmography
Chapter Seventeen ................................................................................... 195
Mapping Goa: Spaces and Scenarios in Representing the Oriental World
Chapter Eighteen ..................................................................................... 212
The Plant Revelation: Garcia da Orta, Carolus Clusius and Asian Species
in Europe
Writing New Worlds vii
Chapter Nineteen ..................................................................................... 236
“To the smell of this cinnamon”: Notes on the History of a Rare Spice
Chapter Twenty ....................................................................................... 249
On How the “Savage” became Ever More Savage: Perspectives on Africa
in Early Modern Europe
Editorial Note .......................................................................................... 261
Bibliography ............................................................................................ 264
LIST OF FIGURES
CoverJohann Stradanus: Nova reperta, (New inventions and discoveries
of modern times), The Invention of the Compass, plate 2, ca. 1530–
1581
Fig. 1 Johannes Vermeer: The Geographer, c. 1668–1669; Städel,
Frankfurt/M.
Fig. 2Newe unbekanthe landte, 1508; HAB Wolfenbüttel
Fig. 3, 4, 5, 6 Otto Friedrich von der Groeben: Guinesische
Reise=Beschreibung, 1694
Fig. 7 Theodor de Bry: Ander Theil der Orientalische Indien,
Frankfurt/M., 1598; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg
Fig. 8 Johan Nieuhof: Die Gesantschaft der Ost=Indischen Geselschaft,
Amsterdam, 1669; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg
Fig. 9 Johan Nieuhof: Gedenkwürdige Brasilianense Zee- en Landt-Reize,
Amsterdam, 1684; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg
Fig. 10 Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, The wild man, ca. 1530;
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer
Kulturbesitz
Fig. 11 Theodor de Bry: Wunderbarliche doch Wahrhafftige Erklärung
der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia..., Frankfurt/M.,
1600; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg
Fig. 12 Johan Nieuhof: Die Gesantschaft der Ost=Indischen Geselschaft,
Amsterdam, 1669; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg
Fig. 13 Theodor de Bry: Dritte Buch Americae (Hans Staden),
Frankfurt/M., 1593; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg
Fig. 14 Olfert Dapper: Umbständliche und eigentliche Beschreibung von
Africa, Amsterdam, 1670; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg
Fig. 15 Levin Hulsius: Kurtze Wunderbare Beschreibung. Deß
Goldreichen Königsreichs Guianae in America..., Nürnberg 1603;
Staatsbibliothek Bamberg
Fig. 16 Johann Ludwig Gottfried: Neue Archontologia Cosmica,
Frankfurt/M., 1646; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg
Fig. 17 Ludovico di Varthema: Die ritterliche vnd lobwirdig rayss...,
Augsburg, 1515; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg
Fig. 18 Albrecht Dürer: Book of Hours Maximilian I, 1515; Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek München
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Fig. 19 Albrecht Dürer: Katherina, 1521
Fig. 20 Albrecht Dürer: Oriental knight, 1494
Fig. 21 Albrecht Dürer: Turkish Emperor, 1523
Fig. 22 Jobst Amman: 12 Men with turbans, ca. 1600
Fig. 23 Jost Amman: The four continents, 1577; Kupferstichkabinett
Kunstsammlungen Veste Coburg
Fig. 24 Melchior Lorch: Sultan Soliman, 1574
Fig. 25 Francisco Álvares: Die reis zu des christlichen Königs im hohen
Ethiopien..., Frankfurt/M., 1581; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg
Fig. 26 Christoph Weiditz: Trachtenbuch, ca. 1530; Germanisches
Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
Fig. 27 Amerigo Vespucci, De ora antarctica per regem Portugallie
pridem inuenta, Strasburg, 1505
Fig. 28 Matthias Ringmann and Martin Waldseemüller, Mappa mundi, St
Dié, 1507
Fig. 29 Francazano Montalbodo, Paesi Novamente retrovati per la
Navigatione di Spagna in Calicut, Venezia, 1501
Fig. 30 Amerigo Vespucci, Von der new gefunden Region so wol ein welt
genenpt mag werden, durch denCristenlichen Künig von Portugal,
wunderbarlich erfunden, Nürnberg, 1506
Fig. 31 Amerigo Vespucci, Das sind die new gefunde[n] mensche[n]
od[er] volcker Jn form vn[d] gestalt Als sie hie stend durch de[n]
Cristenlichen Künig von Portugall/ gar wunnderbarlich erfunden,
Leipzig, 1505
Fig. 32 Johann Stradanus, America retectio, 1589
Fig. 33 Johann Stradanus, Americus Vespuccius Florentinus portentosa
navigatione, c. 1599-1603
Fig. 34 Theodore Galle / Johann Stradanus, America,c. 1599–1603
Fig. 35 Johann Stradanus, Nova reperta, (New inventions and discoveries
of modern times), c. 1599-1603
Fig. 36 Johann Stradanus, Nova reperta, (New inventions and discoveries
of modern times), c. 1599-1603
Fig. 37 Arnold Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld...,
Amsterdam, 1671
Fig. 38 Martin Waldseemüller: Carta Marina Navigatoria Portugallen...,
1516; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München
Fig. 39, 40 Honorius Philoponus, Nova typis transacta navigatio, s.l.
1621; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg
Fig. 41, 42 Cornelius Hazart: Kirchen=Geschichte..., Wien, 1678;
Staatsbibliothek Bamberg