La Non Trubada: La Question Des Iles Errantes Dans Les Navigations d'Autrefois

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the thesis of the wandering isle, which already held sway in classical antiquity, gains further grounds because of the infancy of new maritime knowledge, of deliberate state politics and cartographic choices, and of the failed quest for the Non Trubada - an island of pure language, without a real place.