Meera Juncu

India in the Italian Renaissance (eBook, ePUB)

Visions of a Contemporary Pagan World 1300-1600

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

India in the Italian Renaissance surveys the changing representations of pagan Indians in Italian culture from the late medieval period to the end of the 16th century. Curiosity for the world well beyond Italy, and the freedom to decide what one thought of it, were important features of Italian Renaissance culture. Therefore the response to the challenge of contemporary pagan worlds was one of twists and turns. Although contemporary pagan India was never endorsed by Italian humanist culture, this study shows that there are indications that, as the image of contemporary India evolved, so its ancient pagan past began to be mythologized as on a par with the classical world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317447689
• Artikelnr.: 48422612

Autorenporträt

Meera Juncu received her doctorate in Italian Renaissance studies from the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations 1 Changing representations of pagan Indians in
Italian culture c.1300 to c.1600 2 Preconceptions of the Indians c.1300 3
Transformations of medieval Indian tradition in Marco Polo's Il milione 4 A
fourteenth-century religious view of the Indians: Odorico's relatio and its
re-presentation by Mandeville 5 Gymnosophists, gods and the Greeks: India
among the humanists from Petrarch to Alberti 6 Novelty and humanity in
Poggio Bracciolini's representation of the Indians 7 India 'recognita'? The
fifteenth-century reception of Poggio's portrayal of the Indians 8
Following Da Gama's wake: Italian visions of 'Portuguese' India
(c.1500-c.1514) 9 A new Ulysses' Indians: the Itinerario of Ludovico de
Varthema 10 A polyphony of modern voices: Ramusio's contribution to
understandings of Indians 11 Popularized Jesuit views 12
Late-sixteenth-century merchant perspectives Conclusion Index