<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>The story of the birth of the Renaissance in the city of Florence is well known.</strong></p><p>But the economic structures that created the conditions for the Renaissance also brought about the colonization of non-European worlds through linguistic and semiotic hegemony--a part of the story rarely incorporated into traditional narratives of Renaissance Florence. <i>Unmapping the Renaissance</i> gathers scholarship unpacking these issues.</p>