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This luxurious, richly illustrated edition shows the world as it was known in the sixteenth century through the maps and images of the Map Room in the Florentine Palazzo Vecchio. Multidisciplinary studies examined in particular the 53 panels depicting various countries as well as the large central globe. The volume refers to various selections of marvelous or peculiar images included in the room's decorations, which together with the maps reflect the cosmological view of the world and its history during the time of Cosimo Medici I. Italian text.