The global city on the streets of renaissance lisbon amazonde gschwend annemarie jordan lowe k j p fremdsprachige bucher. Recently identified b the editors as the rua nova dos mercadores the principal commercial and financial street in renaissance lisbon two sixteenth century paintings acquired by dante gabriel rossetti in 1866 form the starting point for this portrait of a global city in the early modern period focusing on unpublished objects and incorporating newly discovered documents and inventories . Lisbon was imagined as the head of empire or caput mundi while the river tagus became the aquatic gateway to a globally connected world lisbon evolved into a dynamic atlantic port city excelling in shipbuilding cartography and the manufacture of naval instruments the historian damiao de gois bragged of the tagus reigning over the world lisbons fame depended on its river an . The global city on the streets of renaissance lisbon jordan gschwend annemarie and k j p lowe eds london paul holberton publishing 2015 isbn 978190372889 zoltan biedermann university college london great discoveries such as the one that gave birth to the global city are rare nowadays in the preface to this fine book we can read how it happened in 2009 kate lowe a historian of . Recently identified by the editors as the rua nova dos mercadores the principal commercial and financial street in renaissance lisbon two sixteenth century paintings acquired by dante gabriel rossetti in 1866 form the starting point for this portrait of a global city in the early modern period