THIS EARTHLY GLOBE
A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
Book Presentation
ANDREA DI ROBILANT
in conversation with
TODD PORTNOWITZ
From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair (“A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing” — The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography.
In This Earthly Globe (Knopf, 2024), Di Robilant brings to life the palace intrigues, editorial wheedling, delicate alliances and vibrant curiosity that resulted in this coup by the editor Giovambattista Ramusio.
Andrea Di Robilant was born in Italy and educated in the United States at Columbia University, where he specialized in international affairs. After a career in journalism, he now teaches creative writing at the American University in Rome. He is the author of A Venetian Affair; Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon; Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers; Chasing the Rose and Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse.
Todd Portnowitz is a senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf and a translator of Italian literature. His prose translations include Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (co-translated with the author), In Search of Amrit Kaur by Livia Manera Sambuy, The Greatest Invention by Silvia Ferrara, and Long Live Latin by Nicola Gardini; his poetry translations include the forthcoming Methods by Lorenzo Carlucci and Go Tell It to the Emperor by Pierluigi Cappello, for which he received a Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. He is a co-host of the writer-translator reading series Us&Them, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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