Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE The New World and Italy in the Early Sixteenth Century -- TWO A Turkey in a Medici Tapestry -- THREE The Americas in the Guardaroba Nuova -- FOUR Francesco's Exchange and Documentation of American Nature -- FIVE The Stanzino and the Representation of the New World -- SIX Between Ethnography and Fantasy in Ferdinando's New World -- SEVEN The Florentine Codex and Buti's Frescoes of Amerindians -- EIGHT Stradano's Invention of the Americas
NINE The Americas Both Real and Imagined -- Conclusion: Vicarious Conquest -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
