Catalogue Of Publications 1968

Author(s): Giuseppe Tucci
Publisher: Giuseppe Tucci

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gives a rich and well-defined outline of the trade routes, coins, weights and measures, and generally of political and social conditions in the Near and Middle East during the second half of the 16th century.
V - Le navigazioni atlantiche del Veneziano Alvise Ca'da Mosto, edited
by Tullia GASPARRINI LEPORACE. pp. XXIV-356. Rome 1966.
Lit. 16.000
This new volume is edited by Tullia Gasparrini Leporace, director of the National Marciana Library at Venice, who has been able to make use of all available sources in preparing for publication the text of the Atlantic voyages of Alvise da Mosto, enriched by an ample critical apparatus with an Introduction, and historical and philological Commentaries, that help to make clear all the points of this travel account. The Introduction supplies exhaustive data and information in the light of the most recent researches, on the life and work of the great navigator, as well as on the previous editions of the text. Professor Raymond Mauny has brought his scholarly contribution to the Commentaries by collaborating for the part concerning the history and geography of Africa, within his own field of competence. In addition to the narrative of Ca' da Mosto, the volume comprises the accounts of the voyages of the Portuguese navigator Pedro de Cintra, with an Appendix containing the portolano of the sea, ascribed to Alvise himself.
VOLUMES IN THE PRESS:
I viaggi in Persia degli Ambasciatori veneti Barbaro e Contarini, edited
by R. MOROZZO DELLA ROCCA and L. LOCKHART.
Lettere dalla Persia di Pietro della Valle, edited by G. GAETA and L. LOCK
HART.
SCRITTORI D'ORIENTE
(Writers of the Orient)
Dori
A collection published under the direction of Giuseppe Tucci, in cooperation with the Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East (ISMEO), by the Firm of Leonardo da Vinci, Bari.
This series includes translations in Italian of the most important works of classic and modern literature of Asian countries, direct from the original texts, edited by Orientalist scholars, and enriched by ample introductions dealing with the life and works of the Authors.
The following titles have been published so far: 1. ARYASURA, Storia della tigre ed altre storie delle vite anteriori del Bud
dha (Jātakamālā) edited by Raniero GNOLI. Bari 1964, pp. 316, 4 plates in colours, full-page; bound. Lit. 3.800
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