Talk:Estotiland

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Venetians in America: Nicolò Zen and the Virtual Exploration of the New World Author(s): Elizabeth Horodowich Source: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Fall 2014), pp. 841-877 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Renaissance Society ofAmerica Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/678776 Accessed: 02-01-2018 21:22 UTC

"Zen derived much of his description of Estotiland from Benedetto Bordone’s account of Mexico. For instance, Zen claims that Estotiland ‘‘had a tall mountain in the middle, from which four rivers rise that irrigate the island.’’ Bordone describes an identical mountain in Hispaniola, ‘‘and from this mountain, four rivers flow down into the plain.’’49 Both Zen and Bordone describe the locals’ literacy; according to Zen, the natives on Estotiland ‘‘have a language, and separate letters,’’ while for Bordone, the Mexicans similarly ‘‘have distinct characters in their writing.’’50 Zen relates that to the south of Estotiland, there was a country ‘‘very rich in gold’’" "Abraham Ortelius similarly produced a map of the North Sea in 1570 in his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum that clearly labeled Estotiland as part of America." Doug Weller talk 16:58, 10 January 2018 (UTC)