A view onto the world: Tenochtitlan, travel and utopia in the early modern period
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines the Cortés map of Tenochtitlan (1524) and its derivatives to explore the ways the map emerges in diverse forms, and in different contexts, throughout the sixteenth century. For nearly two hundred years, the only images of Tenochtitlan, or Mexico City, to be published in Europe were derived from the original Cortés map, which represented the city before its conquest by the Spanish in 1521. The maps of Tenochtitlan included in Benedetto Bordone's Libro di Benedetto Bordone nel quale si ragiona tutte l'Isole del mondo (1528) and Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Navigationi e Viaggi (1556) brought the city into dialogue with Venice, encouraging viewers to interpret the two together. As Venice shifted from its traditional maritime economy to land ventures on the mainland in the sixteenth century, its citizens looked to the island city of Tenochtitlan to rethink their city's own lagoonal environment. Tenochtitlan's insular topography invited new possibilities for re-imagining Venice in utopic terms. However, with the fall of Tenochtitlan, the printed imagery in Europe evoked a city that was rapidly being transformed into another, Mexico City, under Spanish rule. It was the visual experience of Tenochtitlan in images, rather than the real city they claimed to represent, that would prompt a re-envisioning of Venice.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".