1. On the term isolario, which came into use in 1534, and for a full analysis of the genre and bibliography, see George Tolias, “Isolarii, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Century,” in The History of Cartography: Interpretive Essays, ed. David Woodward (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 3: 263–84.
2. On the history of books about islands in Western culture, see Chet Van Duzer, “From Odysseus to Robinson Crusoe: A Survey of Early Western Island Literature,” Island Studies Journal 1, no. 1 (2006): 143–62. See also Denis Cosgrove, Apollo’s Eye on the isolario (90–95).
3. On the Mediterranean, see Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, trans. Siân Reynolds (New York: Harper and Row, 1976)
4. Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000)
5. Colin Heywood, ed., The Rise of the Ottoman Empire: Studies on the History of Turkey, 13th–15th Centuries (Richmond: Curzon, 2001)