Literature and Identity in Italian Baroque Travel Writing
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A01=Nathalie Hester
Accademia Degli Incogniti
Accademia Degli Umoristi
Accademia Del Cimento
Amedeo Quondam
Author_Nathalie Hester
baroque humanism
careri
carletti
Catalina De Erauso
Category=DSB
Corrado Vivanti
Cosimo III
cultural identity studies
Degli Incogniti
della
early
early modern diaspora
Early Modern European Travel
East Indies
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eq_biography-true-stories
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eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
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European colonial expansion
European Travel Narrative
francesco
Francesco Carletti
Frederick III
gemelli
Gemelli Careri
Gerusalemme Liberata
Gino Benzoni
Italian Identity
Italian Literary
Italian Literary Culture
Italian Travel
Italian travel literature analysis
Italian Travel Writing
italiana
letteratura
Loredana Polezzi
Marziano Guglielminetti
modern
Petrarchan influence
seventeenth-century Italy
storia
Travel Writing
Vostra Signoria
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- ISBN 9780754661948
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This first full-length study in English on seventeenth-century Italian travel writing enriches our understanding of an unusually fertile period for Italian contributions to the genre. The intrinsic qualities of this literature can now be grasped in terms of the larger question of cultural identity in Italy. For Hester, the specifically literary characteristics of Italian travel writing”including its humanism or Petrarchism”highlight the classic eminence throughout Europe of a prestigious tradition inherent to Italy, one compensating then for the peninsula's lack of a national political identity. Appeals to the cultural authority of that tradition represent a means of addressing and overcoming anxieties about the Italian subject's diasporic status during the "Golden Age" of European global colonial expansion. Self-funded travelers Francesco Carletti, Pietro Della Valle, Francesco Belli, Francesco Negri, and Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri are the major authors studied who journeyed through Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and America.
Nathalie Hester is Associate Professor of Italian and French at the University of Oregon, USA.
