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Conference Organizers Angelo Cattaneo (CHAM-FCSH-UNL/UAç) Francisco Contente Domingues (CH-FLUL) Conference Assistant Edward Collins (University College Dublin, Universidad Pablo de Olavide) Institutional Context and Sponsors Centro de História de Além-Mar, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Universidade dos Açores Centro de História da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa CTT – Correios de Portugal, S.A Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa Fundação Luso-Americana para Desenvolvimento Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lisbona Universidade Aberta MUNDUS NOVUS VESPUCCI: ANCIENT WORLD AND NEW WORLD UNIVERSITY OF LISBON, FACULTY OF HUMANITIES 13-14 DECEMBER 2012 AMPHITHEATRE 3 (SESSIONS I, II, IV, V) AMPHITHEATRE 4 (SESSION III) Mundus Novus. Vespucci: Ancient World and New World 2012 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of the Florentine Amerigo Vespucci, whose name is associated with one of the most significant moments in the history of European expansion: the recog- nition of the land discovered on the other side of the Atlantic as a mundus novus. The letters that Vespucci sent to the eminent Florentine figures of the time, describing the voyages that he undertook in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish crowns, were immediately celebrated. Trans- lated into Latin, they became a literary event of such importance that in 1507 the German humanist and cosmographer Martin Waldseemül- ler gave the name America to the southern part of the discovered lands: Vespucci thus came to be considered the “New Ptolemy”. Vespucci's biography and the historical contexts in which he moved arouse intense historiographical debate on an international level. With a view to remembering and deepening our knowledge of the iconic figure of Vespucci in the context of the Iberian Peninsula, in associa- tion with the main European cultural and commercial centres, and also as a major figure in the process of the decompartmentalization of the world, well beyond “Florentine centered” narratives, an interna- tional conference will take place in Lisbon at the end of this year. Themes under discussion include, but are not confined to, the follow- ing topics: travel, trade, and exploration; literary, cosmographic, and cartographic sources and the construction of new worlds; East-West connections and the formation of the Atlantic World in the ancient Mediterranean world; the elaboration, circulation, appropriation of ideas, ideologies, and iconography. Papers are presented in Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese. Imagem:

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Page 1: MUNDUS NOVUS VESPUCCI: ANCIENT WORLD AND ...13-14 DECEMBER 2012 AMPHITHEATRE 3 (SESSIONS I, II, IV, V) AMPHITHEATRE 4 (SESSION III) Mundus Novus. Vespucci: Ancient World and New World

Conference Organizers

Angelo Cattaneo (CHAM-FCSH-UNL/UAç)

Francisco Contente Domingues (CH-FLUL)

Conference Assistant

Edward Collins (University College Dublin, Universidad

Pablo de Olavide)

Institutional Context and Sponsors

Centro de História de Além-Mar, Faculdade de Ciências

Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e

Universidade dos Açores

Centro de História da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de

Lisboa

CTT – Correios de Portugal, S.A

Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

Fundação Luso-Americana para Desenvolvimento

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lisbona

Universidade Aberta

MUNDUS NOVUS

VESPUCCI: ANCIENT WORLD AND

NEW WORLD

UNIVERSITY OF LISBON, FACULTY OF HUMANITIES

13-14 DECEMBER 2012

AMPHITHEATRE 3 (SESSIONS I, II, IV, V)

AMPHITHEATRE 4 (SESSION III)

Mundus Novus. Vespucci: Ancient World and New World

2012 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of the Florentine

Amerigo Vespucci, whose name is associated with one of the most

significant moments in the history of European expansion: the recog-

nition of the land discovered on the other side of the Atlantic as a

mundus novus.

The letters that Vespucci sent to the eminent Florentine figures of the

time, describing the voyages that he undertook in the service of the

Portuguese and Spanish crowns, were immediately celebrated. Trans-

lated into Latin, they became a literary event of such importance that

in 1507 the German humanist and cosmographer Martin Waldseemül-

ler gave the name America to the southern part of the discovered

lands: Vespucci thus came to be considered the “New Ptolemy”.

Vespucci's biography and the historical contexts in which he moved

arouse intense historiographical debate on an international level. With

a view to remembering and deepening our knowledge of the iconic

figure of Vespucci in the context of the Iberian Peninsula, in associa-

tion with the main European cultural and commercial centres, and

also as a major figure in the process of the decompartmentalization of

the world, well beyond “Florentine centered” narratives, an interna-

tional conference will take place in Lisbon at the end of this year.

Themes under discussion include, but are not confined to, the follow-

ing topics: travel, trade, and exploration; literary, cosmographic, and

cartographic sources and the construction of new worlds; East-West

connections and the formation of the Atlantic World in the ancient

Mediterranean world; the elaboration, circulation, appropriation of

ideas, ideologies, and iconography. Papers are presented in Spanish,

English, Italian and Portuguese.

Imagem:

Page 2: MUNDUS NOVUS VESPUCCI: ANCIENT WORLD AND ...13-14 DECEMBER 2012 AMPHITHEATRE 3 (SESSIONS I, II, IV, V) AMPHITHEATRE 4 (SESSION III) Mundus Novus. Vespucci: Ancient World and New World

DAY ONE - DECEMBER 13

09:30 Opening Session

SESSION I (Amphitheatre III) Chair: Ana Paula Avelar (Universidade Aberta)

10:00-11:30 Luciano Formisano (Università di Bologna)

«La “questione vespucciana”, hoy»

Marília dos Santos Lopes (Universidade Católica Por-

tuguesa)

«Amerigo Vespucci na iconografia dos séculos XVI e

XVII»

11:30-11:45 Coffee break

11:45-13:00 Chet Van Duzer (The John Carter Brown Library)

«New Insights on the Maps of the Vespuccis: Giorgio

Antonio, Amerigo, and Giovanni»

Jorge Díaz Ceballos (Universidad de Cantabria)

«Juan de la Cosa, Américo Vespucio: la cartografia y

la invención del Nuevo Mundo (1492-1512)»

13:00-14:30 Lunch

SESSION II (Amphitheatre III)

Chair: Angelo Cattaneo (Centro de História de Além-Mar, Universi-

dade Nova de Lisboa, Universidade dos Açores)

14:30-15:45 Irene Mariani (University of Edinburgh)

«Sailing back! A social and cultural reappraisal of the

Vespucci family in late fifteenth century Florence»

Marisa Costa (Instituto de História da Arte, Universi-

dade de Lisboa)

«Italianos em Lisboa no século de Américo Vespúcio»

15:45-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-17:30 Ana Paula Avelar (Universidade Aberta)

«O “Mundo Novo” de Amerigo Vespucci como rever-

berações do exótico na historiografia portuguesa de

Quinhentos»

Carlos Manuel Valentim (Centro de Documentação,

Informação e Arquivo Central da Marinha)

«A Questão Vespuciana e a Fixação Cronológica das

Primeiras Viagens ao Brasil na Produção Historiográfi-

ca de A. Teixeira da Mota»

SESSION III (Amphitheatre IV) Chair: Francisco Contente Domingues (Centro de História, Faculda-

de de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa)

14:30-15:45 Mariano Cuesta Domingo (Universidad Complutense)

«El éxito sobrevenido. Descubrimientos, cartografía y

toponímia»

José María García Redondo (Escuela de Estudios His-

pano-Americanos)

«Universalis Cosmographia y lo desconocido. El pai-

saje como posibilidad de representación»

15:45-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-17:30 Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli (Università di Firenze)

«Beyond Iberia: Florentine bankers and John Cabot's

voyage to the "New Land"»

Vincenzo Palladino (Università di Tor Vergata)

«Problematiche geopolitiche ed economiche conse-

guenti la scoperta del Nuovo Mondo»

DAY TWO - DECEMBER 14

SESSION IV (Amphitheatre III) Chair: Edward Collins (University College Dublin, Universidad Pablo

de Olavide)

10:00-11:15 António Dias Farinha (Universidade de Lisboa)

«Encontro de três mundos»

Giancarlo Casale (University of Minnesota)

«Vespucci and the Ottomans: New Worlds for All?»

11:15-11:30 Coffee break

11:45-13:00 Consuelo Varela (Escuela de Estudios Hispano-

Americanos)

«Américo Vespucci al servicio de la Corona de Castil-

la»

«Luís Adão daFonseca (Universidade do Porto)

O Pensamento Insular nos Relatos de Amerigo Ves-

pucci»

13:00-14:30 Lunch

SESSION V (Amphitheatre III) Chair: José da Silva Horta (Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lis-

boa)

14:30-15:45 Davide Baldi (Università di Udine)

«Vespucci, Ringmann e Waldseemüller. Umanesimo e

cartografia»

António Costa Canas (Museu de Marinha)

«Scientific activities of Jesuits in America»

15:45-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-17:30 Edward Collins (University College Dublin, Universi-

dad Pablo de Olavide)

«Vespucci, imperial competition, and the Casa de la

Contratación,1508-1530»

Ricardo Padrón (University of Virginia)

«Mundus Novus - China - Terra Australis: Successive

New World Fantasies»