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Title

Global perspectives in modern Italian culture : knowledge and representation of the world in Italy from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century / edited by Guido Abbattista.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York : Routledge, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

Abbattista, Guido

Description

xiv, 317 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

"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 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"--

Series Statement

Ideas beyond Borders: Studies in Transnational Intellectual History

Subject

• 1492-1870
• Italians > Attitudes > Sources
• Italians > Travel > Sources
• Other (Philosophy) > Italy > History
• World history > Historiography
• Civilization
• Diplomatic relations
• Historiography
• Intellectual life
• Italians > Attitudes
• Italians > Travel
• Other (Philosophy)
• Italy > Civilization > Sources. > 1559-1789
• Italy > Foreign relations > Sources
• Italy > Intellectual life > Sources. > 1559-1789
• Italy > History > Historiography. > 1492-1870
• Italy

Genre/Form

• History.
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

'Reason of state' and universal history: Boccalini and Botero / Girolamo Imbruglia -- The idea of Ottoman despotism in the Relazioni of the Venetian ambassadors / Giuseppe Trebbi -- The Turkish enemy and the Eastern European space in Giambattista Vico's Deeds of Antonio Carafa / Stefania Sini -- From the Americas to Rome: path of knowledge among the Roman Curia (seventeenth -early eighteenth century) / Giovanni Pizzorusso -- Confronting nationalities: Italian Jesuits in China in the late seventeenth century / Irene Gaddo -- Italian intermediation and knowledge of the languages and cultures of India: the narrative practices regarding the 'other' in missionaries' writings / Cristina Muru -- The mapmaking of the Italian states. circulation, transnational debates and geographical networks in the Italian scientific academies during the long eighteenth century / Marco Petrella -- A Persian Matteo Ricci: Muḥammad Zamān's seventeenth-century translation of De Christiana Expeditione Apud Sinas / Francesco Calzolaio-Stefano Pellò -- Representing Asia in the Costume antico e moderno by Giulio Ferrario / Rolando Minuti -- Voices on China in early nineteenth-century Italian culture (1800-1850) / Guido Abbattista -- The world seen from Milan: illustrated travel journals in the 19th century / Francesca Tacchi -- Columbus and the others. the historiographic and schoolbook Image of the Italian navigators / Claudio Rosso -- The Atlantic slave trade on Italian shores. the case of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1815-1853) / Marco Mariano -- From the banks of the Neva: Italian diplomats and representations of Russia in 1862-1914 / Andrea Borelli -- Antonello Gerbi's Discovery of the New World. life experience and the practice of history (1938-1948) / Maria Matilde Benzoni.

Call Number

JFE 21-8784

ISBN

• 9780367467920
• 0367467925
• 9781032047911
• 1032047917

LCCN

• 2021006554
• 40030791898

OCLC

1242017839

Title

Global perspectives in modern Italian culture : knowledge and representation of the world in Italy from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century / edited by Guido Abbattista.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York : Routledge, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ideas beyond Borders: Studies in Transnational Intellectual History

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1492-1870

Added Author

Abbattista, Guido, editor, author.

Other Form:

Online version: Global perspectives in modern Italian culture First edition. New York : Routledge, 2021. 9781003031093 (DLC) 2021006555

Other Standard Identifier

40030791898

Research Call Number

JFE 21-8784