Alessandro Ricci is Assistant Professor of Political Geography at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His research interests concern Early Modern globalization and political geography; historical and political cartography; the connections between art, maps and power; and the Netherlands during the Golden Age. In 2018, he received the "Carmelo Colamonico" award from Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei for "scientific writings in geography". In 2014, he obtained a European Label PhD degree cum laude in "Culture and Territory" at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", where he has been a researcher and attended courses in political cartography and geopolitics. He carried out research activities at the University of Trento and Amsterdam. He is one of the managers of the Think tank "Geopolitica.info".

• Preface, by Franco FarinelliForewordIntroductionAcknowledgementsChapter 1 – For a definition of uncertaintyChapter 2 – The society of uncertaintyChapter 3 – Early Modern European political geography and uncertaintyChapter 4 – The "Mad Flight" and the geography of uncertaintyChapter 5 – Cartographic secularization Chapter 6 – The tragedy of cartography in the Modern Age Chapter 7 – Conclusion: uncertainty as a Paradigm of Modern TimesBibliographyIndex

Alessandro Ricci is Assistant Professor of Political Geography at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His research interests concern Early Modern globalization and political geography; historical and political cartography; the connections between art, maps and power; and the Netherlands during the Golden Age. In 2018, he received the "Carmelo Colamonico" award from Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei for "scientific writings in geography". In 2014, he obtained a European Label PhD degree cum laude in "Culture and Territory" at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", where he has been a researcher and attended courses in political cartography and geopolitics. He carried out research activities at the University of Trento and Amsterdam. He is one of the managers of the Think tank "Geopolitica.info".

• Preface, by Franco FarinelliForewordIntroductionAcknowledgementsChapter 1 – For a definition of uncertaintyChapter 2 – The society of uncertaintyChapter 3 – Early Modern European political geography and uncertaintyChapter 4 – The "Mad Flight" and the geography of uncertaintyChapter 5 – Cartographic secularization Chapter 6 – The tragedy of cartography in the Modern Age Chapter 7 – Conclusion: uncertainty as a Paradigm of Modern TimesBibliographyIndex

Alessandro Ricci is Assistant Professor of Political Geography at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His research interests concern Early Modern globalization and political geography; historical and political cartography; the connections between art, maps and power; and the Netherlands during the Golden Age. In 2018, he received the "Carmelo Colamonico" award from Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei for "scientific writings in geography". In 2014, he obtained a European Label PhD degree cum laude in "Culture and Territory" at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", where he has been a researcher and attended courses in political cartography and geopolitics. He carried out research activities at the University of Trento and Amsterdam. He is one of the managers of the Think tank "Geopolitica.info".

• Preface, by Franco FarinelliForewordIntroductionAcknowledgementsChapter 1 – For a definition of uncertaintyChapter 2 – The society of uncertaintyChapter 3 – Early Modern European political geography and uncertaintyChapter 4 – The "Mad Flight" and the geography of uncertaintyChapter 5 – Cartographic secularization Chapter 6 – The tragedy of cartography in the Modern Age Chapter 7 – Conclusion: uncertainty as a Paradigm of Modern TimesBibliographyIndex