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 True Description of Cairo, The: A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View by Warner, Nicholas |
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Brief Description In 1549, a Venetian print maker, Matteo Pagano, published a large woodblock print of an aerial view of the city of Cairo; it was accompanied by a Latin text ("Descriptio Alcahirae") attributed to the orientalist scholar, Guillaume Postel. This work provides a context for Pagano's view of Cairo, a translation of Postel's text, and a commentary. |
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Author Profile Nicholas Warner is an architect trained at Cambridge University and the School of Design, Harvard University. He came to Egypt in 1992 to conduct research on the Islamic Architecture of Cairo. Since then he has participated in or directed a number of projects related to the documentation, preservation, and presentation of historic structures and archaeological sites. In addition to these projects, Nicholas Warner has lectured and published widely on the subject of the historic architecture of Cairo. |
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Synopsis In 1549, a Venetian print maker, Matteo Pagano, published a large woodblock print of an aerial view of the city of Cairo; it was accompanied by a Latin text ("Descriptio Alcahirae") attributed to the orientalist scholar, Guillaume Postel. The depiction of the city is sufficiently accurate to permit a detailed interpretation of the city to be made, and it remained the standard western representation of this fabled eastern city for the next 250 years. Nicholas Warner provides a context for Pagano's view of Cairo, a translation of Postel's text, and a commentary on the contents of the print itself in addition to the accompanying narrative. An index of subsequent revisions, and a superbly produced enhanced facsimile of the view itself is included. Volume 1 (208 pages) includes 36 large colour plates, 5 black-and-white plates, and a modern facsimile of the original Latin text "Descriptio Alchiriae". Volume 2 (208 pages) includes a modern facsimile of the original Latin text "Descripto Alcahirae", and 68 black-and-white images, all details of the view. Volume 3 - the view of Cairo - is a 'modern facsimile' of the original view i.e. with blemishes etc removed, packed in a slip case. It is the same size as the original, and folds out in a similr manner to an ordnance survey map. It is printed in two colours to match the original. |
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