New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492-1750 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Horodowich, Elizabeth

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Produktbeschreibung

Italians became fascinated by the New World in the early modern period. While Atlantic World scholarship has traditionally tended to focus on the acts of conquest and the politics of colonialism, these essays consider the reception of ideas, images and goods from the Americas in the non-colonial states of Italy. Italians began to venerate images of the Peruvian Virgin of Copacabana, plant tomatoes, potatoes, and maize, and publish costume books showcasing the clothing of the kings and queens of Florida, revealing the powerful hold that the Americas had on the Italian imagination. By considering a variety of cases illuminating the presence of the Americas in Italy, this volume demonstrates how early modern Italian culture developed as much from multicultural contact - with Mexico, Peru, Brazil, and the Caribbean - as it did from the rediscovery of classical antiquity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108515191
• Artikelnr.: 48677706

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Elizabeth Horodowich and Lia Markey; Part I. Italy before
and after the Conquest: 2. Italy and the New World Elizabeth Horodowich; 3.
Dante and the New World Mary Watt; 4. Venetian diplomacy, Spanish gold, and
the New World in the sixteenth century Federica Ambrosini; Part II. The New
World and Italian Religious Culture: 5. Three Bolognese Franciscan
missionaries in the New World in the early sixteenth century Massimo
Donattini; 6. Missionary gift records of Mexican objects in early modern
Italy Davide Domenici; 7. Federico Borromeo and the New World in early
modern Milan Maria Matilde Benzoni; 8. The Virgin of Copacabana in early
modern Italy: a disembodied devotion Karen Lloyd; 9. Jesuit martyrdom
imagery between Mexico and Rome Katherine McAllen; Part III. New World
Plants in the Italian Imagination: 10. Southern Italy and the New World in
the age of encounters Mackenzie Cooley; 11. The impact of New World plants,
1500-1800: the Americas in Italy David Gentilcore; 12. Renaissance
Florentines in the Tropics: Brazil, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and the
limits of empire Brian Brege; Part IV. Representing America: 13.
Aldrovandi's New World natives in Bologna (or how to draw the unseen al
vivo) Lia Markey; 14. Cesare Vecellio's Floridians in the Venetian book
market: beautiful imports Ann Rosalind Jones; 15. Baroque Italian epic from
Granada to the New World: Columbus conquers the Moors Nathalie Hester; 16.
The conquest of Mexico in the Venetian operatic: Vivaldi's Motezuma Ireri
Chávez Bárcenas.