Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture

Knowledge and Representation of the World in Italy from the Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century
Herausgeber: Abbattista, Guido

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Produktbeschreibung

Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture presents a series of unexplored case studies from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, each demonstrating how travellers, scientists, Catholic missionaries, scholars and diplomats coming from the Italian peninsula contributed to understandings of various global issues during the age of early globalization. It also examines how these individuals represented different parts of the world to an Italian audience, and how deeply Italian culture drew inspiration from the increasing knowledge of world 'Otherness'. The first part of the book focuses on the production of knowledge, drawing on texts written by philosophers, scientists, historians and numerous other first-hand eyewitnesses. The second part analyses the dissemination and popularization of knowledge by focussing on previously understudied published works and initiatives aimed at learned Italian readers and the general public. Written in a lively and engaging manner, this book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern and modern European history, as well as those interested in global history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 665g
• ISBN-13: 9780367467920
• ISBN-10: 0367467925
• Artikelnr.: 62225857

Autorenporträt

Guido Abbattista is Professor of Modern History at the University of Trieste.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. 'Reason of State' and Universal History: Boccalini and
Botero 2. The Idea of Ottoman Despotism in the Relazioni of the Venetian
Ambassadors 3. The Turkish Enemy and the Eastern European Space in
Giambattista Vico's Deeds of Antonio Carafa 4.From the Americas to Rome:
Paths of Knowledge Among the Roman Curia During the Seventeenth Century 5.
Confronting Nationalities: Italian Jesuits in China in the late Seventeenth
Century 6. Italian Intermediation and Knowledge of The Languages and
Cultures Of India: The Narrative Practices Regarding the 'Other' in
Missionaries' Writings 7. The Mapmaking of the Italian States. Circulation,
Transnational Debates and Geographical Networks in the Italian Scientific
Academies during the Long Eighteenth Century 8. A Persian Matteo Ricci:
Müammad Zam¿n's Seventeenth-Century Translation of De Christiana
Expeditione Apud Sinas 9. Representing Asia in Il Costume antico e moderno
by Giulio Ferrario 10. Voices on China in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian
Culture (1800-1850) 11. The World seen from Milan: Illustrated Travel
Journals in the nineteenth century 12. Columbus and the Others. The
Historiographic and Schoolbook Image of the Italian Navigators 13. The
Atlantic Slave Trade on Italian Shores. The Case of The Kingdom of Sardinia
(1815-1853) 14. From The Banks of the Neva: Italian Diplomats and
Representations of Russia in 1862-1914 15. Antonello Gerbi's Discovery of
the New World. Life Experience and the Practice of History (1938-1948)