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Leonardo da Vinci and Verrazzano’s Royal Discovery of New York (1524-2024)

Codex Cèllere Reassessed

By: Stefaan Missinne

£71.99

The discovery of explorer Verrazzano's 500-year-old travel report led to a world map found among Leonardo da Vinci's papers. Astonishingly, their families were neighbors. Did Leonardo influence his countryman? This book offers new evidence on their connection.

In the archive of Verrazzano Castle in Greve in Chianti, Professor Stefaan Missinne, discoverer of the da Vinci Globe dating from 1504, stumbled upon the…

In the archive of Verrazzano Castle in Greve in Chianti, Professor Stefaan Missinne, discoverer of the da Vinci Globe dating from 1504, stumbled upon the 500-year-old travel report by the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano. This led to Windsor Castle, where the only world map dating from c. 1515 portraying an open seaway between Florida, as an island, and Newfoundland, was found among the papers of Leonardo da Vinci. Verrazzano did meet with Magellan in Seville in 1517 prior to his historical departure, but did Leonardo, while living in France between 1516 and 1519, influence his young royal employer and his Tuscan compatriot in any way? Astonishingly, the families of Verrazzano and da Vinci had been neighbors in Florence. In this reassessment of Verrazzano´s travel report, the author offers new evidence on Leonardo and Verrazzano. The Codex Cèllere, at the Pierpont Morgan Library, now takes its rightful place as New York´s literary birth certificate.

Professor Stefaan Missinne received his PhD from the Vienna University of Economics in Austria, in 1990. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London and a scholar of the late da Vinci authority Professor Carlo Pedretti. He is a member of several international scientific societies and speaks numerous languages. As an international expert on Leonardo da Vinci, Professor Missinne was a scientific curator for international art exhibitions on Leonardo. He has given lectures in Hamburg, Portland (Maine), Vienna, Oxford, Barcelona, Civitella del Lago, London, Amsterdam, Strasburg, Rome, Arezzo, Florence, Malta, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, Graz, at the castle of Giovanni da Verrazzano in Greve in Chianti, at the Archive of the Indies in Seville and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Paperback

ISBN: 1-0364-0017-4
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0017-0
Date of Publication: 2024-03-14

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ISBN: 1-0364-0018-2
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0018-7
Date of Publication: 2024-03-14

Categories: Social Sciences, Geography, Geography, History, Economic History

Pages: 174

Subject Codes:

BIC: RGR, HBJK, KCZ
THEMA: RGR, NHK, KCZ

Pages: 174

"In his new book, and on the occasion of the quincentenary of the discovery of the American East Coast and New York, Prof. Stefaan Missinne leads the reader through a scientific analysis of the earliest toponomy contained in Verrazzano's 1524 travelogue. Verrazzano's place names, examined here in great detail for the first time, reveal the political, religious and iconographic background of the extraordinary connection between the French court and the Tuscans living in exile in France. Thanks to Verrazzano's travelogue and Leonardo da Vinci's presence in France between 1516 and 1519, the author reveals for the first time the much deeper Renaissance connotations in Verrazzano's choice of toponyms and the family ties between the Benci and the Gondi. This excellent book is highly recommended for any reader interested in early American history."
- Marisa Addomine MPhil in History of Science from The Warburg Institute
"Lastly, in both Tuscan and French cartographic circles, the recent publications of Stefaan Missinne are noteworthy. Not only has he uncovered the meaning of many American place names that had hitherto escaped scholars (2024), but he has above all shown the ties, both Florentine and French, that linked the Verrazzano family to Leonardo da Vinci. Moreover, the curious discovery of a map dated 1504 engraved on an ostrich egg globe, also to be linked to Leonardo da Vinci, proves the latter's knowledge of early American discoveries (2018). Such a relationship between these two figures, hitherto passed over in silence, is perhaps one of the most interesting documentary discoveries of the last quarter century."
- Luca Codignola, Faculty Member at The University of Notre Dame, USA
"In this book, one sails up the coast of America, and ends up in New York, and through this trip and the names of the locations, one gets a perfect picture of all those who stayed at home but made this trip possible. An amazing book."
- Dr Kristin De Troyer Vice Rector of the University of Salzburg, Austria
"In this must-have book, Professor Stefaan Missinne highlights and defends the Italian discovery on behalf of the French king of the North American coastline and commends Giovanni da Verrazzano as the first and most humanistic discoverer influenced by Leonardo da Vinci's cartography. The research of this well-documented and illustrated new book by Professor Stefaan Missinne was necessary to set a historical record straight, to explain the numerous new findings and puns in Verrazzano's travelogue, and to establish this Italian in the service of the French king, the discovery of the coastline of North America, and the CODEX CELLERE as "America's literary birth certificate". In a world of mediocrity and followership, Missinne provides innovative, insightful, and intelligent new findings and historic commentary which makes this book so very worthwhile!"
- James Constable Italian Renaissance Expert, Cambridge, USA

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Stefaan Missinne

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Leonardo da Vinci and Verrazzano’s Royal Discovery of New York (1524-2024)

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