Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to

This volume considers Italy's history and examines how Italians became fascinated with the New World in the early modern period.

Mussolini, in the thousand guises he projected and the press picked up, fascinated Americans in the 1920s and the early '30s. John Diggins' analysis of America'