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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stefania Buccini |
| ISBN: | 0271014180 9780271014180 0271015136 9780271015132 |
| OCLC Number: | 32396566 |
| Description: | xiii, 226 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / Franco Fido -- 1. Christian America and "Savage" America. 1. Travelers and Explorers Between Two Centuries. 2. The Comparative Approach: Lafitau, Vico, and Boturini Benaduci -- 2. The Alibis of Exoticism: Myth, Parody, Utopia. 1. The Italian Enlightenment and the Denunciation of the Return "To All Fours" 2. The American Indian in Eighteenth-Century Social Debates. 3. Carlo Goldoni's "American" Tragicomedies. 4. The Parody of the "State of Nature": Francesco Cerlone and Ferdinando Degli Obizzi. 5. Pietro Chiari's Primitivism. 6. The Utopia of Peru. 7. Gian Rinaldo Carli's Lettere americane and the Apotheosis of Utopia -- 3. Tradition and Revision in Eighteenth-Century Histories of the New World -- 4. Italy and the New America. |
| Other Titles: | Dilemma della Grande Atlantide. |
| Responsibility: | Stefania Buccini ; translated by Rosanna Giammanco ; foreword by Franco Fido. |
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Abstract:
The curiosity with which Europeans approached the New World was reflected in the writings of Italian historians, missionaries, travelers, and explorers, who described with fascination the customs of the peoples they encountered in their travels. In this study Stefania Buccini examines the representation of the Americas in Italian literature during the Age of the Enlightenment.
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- Italian literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- Italian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- North America -- In literature.
- South America -- In literature.
- Italian literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Italian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- North America -- In literature
- South America -- In literature
- Littérature italienne -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature italienne -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Amérique du Nord dans la littérature
- Amérique du Sud dans la littérature
- Letterkunde.
- Italiaans.
- Literatur.
- Amerikabild.
- Kultur.
- Amerika <Motiv>
- Italien.
