Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture

Knowledge and Representation of the World in Italy from the Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century

• Author(s): Guido Abbattista,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 317
• ISBN_10: 0367467925
  ISBN_13: 9780367467920
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Italy , History / Modern / General , History / Modern / 17th Century , History / Modern / 18th Century , History / Modern / 19th Century , History / Modern / 20th Century / General ,

Description:... '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.